FRED NEUBAUER is Professor of Multinational Corporate Strategy and Planning at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. As well as having taught in the area of management all over the world, he has been a consultant to multinational corporations, many of them leading family-controlled enterprises. His main area of research is corporate governance and corporate boards ... Read morein privately-held and publicly traded corporations. He is co-author of The Corporate Board: Confronting the Paradoxes. ALDEN G. LANK is Stephen Schmidheiny Professor of Family Enterprises and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. At the IMD he is in charge of the Family Business Area and Director of the Leading the Family Business educational program. He is also President and member of the Executive Board of the Family Business Network and has served as a Board member of the Family Firm Institute and editorial board of the Family Business Review. Show Less