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Does Corporate Governance Matter?

January 1, 2008 | Strategy

There comes a time when corporate governance has little influence over performance, because competitive forces cut away at management fat. That's according to researchers at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, who studied the performance of companies before and after 30 anti-takeover laws were passed in different states between 1985 and 1991.

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