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Corporate Governance Should Combine the Best of Private Equity and Family Firms

Harvard Business Review

Over the years, governance has attempted to close that gap by aligning incentives with measures of performance. But where they have succeeded, they have left public corporations increasingly swayed by short-term results (which are easy to measure) at the expense of future success. These attempts have often failed.