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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it.