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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

There’s no use going to engineers with detailed product specifications before you really know what the customer wants. We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them. So it’s an incredibly labor intensive process for us to verify whether they are a good credit risk.”

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.