Culture, Not Leverage, Made Wall Street Riskier
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2013
Corporate incentives and culture may be even more important in explaining what changed on Wall Street in recent years, and by placing too much emphasis on quantitative ratios like leverage, we may be missing some other important parts of the problem. Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership.
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