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Culture, Not Leverage, Made Wall Street Riskier

Harvard Business Review

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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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Right now, yesterday's organizations — from corporations to Congress — have a gaping, yawning disclosure gap: the how, what, why, how and when of disclosure simply isn't good enough for markets and communities to be able to allocate and utilize resources productively or efficiently.

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