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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

They have less conflict of interest but are not always capable,” the researchers explain. However, when they looked at just the difference in how long the CEO and the CFO (the person in charge of the money) plan for the future, it didn’t seem to matter much. “Subordinate managers run the company day to day.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

A paper by Daylian Cain, George Loewenstein, and Don Moore, published in the Journal of Legal Studies, demonstrates that when salespeople disclose conflicts of interest, destructive behavior can emerge down the line. One year, the CFO noticed that there was a miscalculation that resulted in a shortage of a few million euros.

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