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18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

employers. Employers can create win-win scenarios for themselves and their employees. Senz: Are there other strategies companies can use to protect trade secrets in the absence of non-competes? Wu: Ongoing... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

October 1995
Article

Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects

By: James J. Anton and Dennis Yao

We examine the incentive problem confronting a firm and employee when the employee privately discovers a significant invention and faces a choice between keeping the invention private and leaving the firm to form a new company (start-up), or transferring knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Rights; Employees; Innovation and Invention; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Sharing; Capital; Profit

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Recruiting specialized inventors into young organizations

Commercializing nascent technologies may require the expertise of those intimately involved in the original invention, especially when tacit knowledge is essential. Yet the organization home to the original invention may not serve as the best commercialization... View Details

26 Mar 2019
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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Trade Secrets Protection and Antitakeover Provisions By: Dey, Aiyesha, and Joshua White Abstract—We examine whether and why managers strengthen... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

With a final deal reached on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), prepare for another cacophony of protest in Congress that America is signing away jobs to other parts of the world. The naysayers will be overlooking one small fact. Even without View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

for parent company Limited Brands on both the Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret brands. While privacy concerns about information sent over the Web persist, Velando said Victoria's Secret is very... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail

11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past, 300-332. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming Abstract John Holt & Co is one of a group of unlikely survivors from the imperial era: medium-sized firms that continue to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

than taxing them more heavily. Similarly, the weight of the empirical evidence is that foreign activity is a complement, rather than a substitute, for domestic activity. Much as the formulation of trade policy requires resisting the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

trading volume, and more dispersion in analyst forecasts following the calls. Further, the capital market's response to linguistic complexity is limited to firms for which there is greater demand for English-language conference calls. Our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

obtained, or in cases where a patent is not available, the only protection is to maintain something as a trade secret. To do so, one must show that they've taken reasonable steps to keep it secret from... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Skydeck - Alumni

(MBA 1964) overcame a childhood of foster homes and orphanages to find success in finance—and how a family secret changed his life at age 60 Road Work What a seven-continent motorcycle journey taught Ken Friedman (MBA 1983) about the path... View Details

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

competition. PepsiCo used litigation to protect its marketing strategy by successfully asserting that a former marketing manager who left to work for a competitor would inevitably use trade secrets for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

sources and gather new perspectives." Bennett and Lemoine recommend reaching out “to partners, customers, researchers, trade groups, and perhaps even competitors” in times of uncertainty, in order to understand the impact of this... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Past Issues - Alumni

Choudhury and Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on the long-term lessons of the global remote-work moment Meal Plan Inspire Brands Chief Growth Officer Christian Charnaux and investor Keith Pascal of Act III Holdings trade... View Details

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

solution is to restrict the use of noncompete clauses, not to ban them entirely.” An outright ban, he wrote, would “lead to significant unintended consequences, particularly at a time when the protection of trade View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

hinder its transnational efficiency.” Farah commented, “Bitcoins are useful for trading currencies internationally seamlessly in real time—something current banks lack ” According to Kueth Duany, they are “proving to be another... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

in America, and Work in Progress (co-authored with Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company). Schwartz is now president of LGE Performance Systems and co-created its Corporate Athlete training program, which aims to apply the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

rumors, 'whistle blowing' and reactions counter to the benefit to an organization " Malabika Debnath opined that "I believe we are gradually as a society moving towards a higher level of comfort with openness as we trade off... View Details