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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. Today, four out of five S&P 500 companies use a three-year performance period in their long-term incentives.