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Getting Buy-In for Innovation that Doesn’t Fade at the End of the Quarter

Harvard Business Review

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. Finally, describe your “ Freedoms” and “Constraints”. Then you start worrying.

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Culture, Not Leverage, Made Wall Street Riskier

Harvard Business Review

The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. At Goldman Sachs, one element that was different in the lead up to the financial crisis was not the amount of leverage but the constraints and incentives faced by partners. Ethics Finance Risk management'