# Professor Belen Villalonga shares insights on the profitability of family-run companies

1 Faculty News January 26, 2017 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2017/01/26/21-century-fox-redstone-viacom-family-run-coporation/) -- "[Belen Villalonga](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Belen%20Villalonga) of New York University has found that controlled companies have higher-than-average profitability."

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