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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
How Trade Secrets Hurt Innovation
Intellectual property ResearchThey restrict employee mobility. -
Treat Employees like Adults
Intellectual property Magazine ArticlePeople aren’t getting dumber, but they’re often treated that way. Politicians, educators, and the media assume the public is uncomfortable with nuance and grateful for prescribed solutions. Business, too, is being progressively dumbed down, not only by book authors who teach management by parable but also by managers themselves. Ironically, the infantilization of work is […] -
When Fandom Clashes with IP Law
Intellectual property Digital ArticleShould companies control all the ways people experience art? -
What? Me, Worry?
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleMost executives think they’re security conscious—they change their passwords and shred important documents and so forth. But what rarely crosses their minds, says espionage expert H. Keith Melton, is that cloak-and-dagger types really are after their valuables. Just because you’re not paranoid, he observes, doesn’t mean they’re not following you. Melton, the author of Ultimate […] -
The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit: It Should Be Easy to Poach Talent, But Not IP
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNoncompetes are bad for innovation; protecting information is essential. -
Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its phenomenal growth by innovating from within--building global research facilities and hiring the... -
3 Myths About China’s IP Regime
Business law Digital ArticleFears of forced technology transfer are overblown. -
Can Technology Really Save Us from Climate Change?
Innovation Magazine ArticleThe hope that an entrepreneurial industry can help reverse global warming misses one critical point: Innovation takes time. Lots of time. -
Will Our Partner Steal Our IP? (HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored... -
Can Science Be a Business?: Lessons from Biotech
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleBiotech has not delivered on its promise because the industry’s structure—much of it borrowed from Silicon Valley—is flawed. Businesses engaged in advancing basic science as a core activity need a new design. -
Think Like an Author, Not an Owner
Economics Digital ArticleThe story of Disney and Pixar. -
Open-Market Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleCompanies in many industries are feeling immense pressure to improve their ability to innovate. But executives know that the best ideas aren't always... -
Needed: A New System of Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleSqueezing today’s innovations into yesterday’s system simply won’t work. -
Innovating for Cash
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleReprint: R0309E Despite companies' almost fanatical worship of innovation, most new products don't generate money. That's because executives don't realize... -
Will Our Partner Steal Our IP? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleA Taiwanese manufacturer of hybrid-car parts faces risks to its proprietary technology in its partnership with a Chinese automaker. Case Study authored... -
What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business
Intellectual property Digital ArticleMake yourself a harder target. -
People Don’t Need a Profit Motive to Innovate
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleThe finding: Innovations developed by individuals who give them away increasingly compete with patent-protected, for-profit innovations in many parts of the economy. The research: Recent studies of representative samples of adults in the U.S., Japan, and the UK have found that many consumer products are developed by consumers themselves instead of by companies intending to […] -
Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works
Intellectual property Digital ArticleMovie studios and record companies should take note. -
Patent Trolling Isn't Dead - It's Just Moving to Delaware
Technology & Operations ResearchThe recent Supreme Court ruling wasn't a cure-all.
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
Your Company’s Data Is for Sale on the Dark Web. Should You Buy It Back?
Business ethics Digital ArticlePaying for stolen data — even when it’s your own — comes with substantial legal and reputational risks. -
Big Tech Has a Patent Violation Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleCongress needs to make it easier to enforce IP protections. -
Elon Musk Doesn’t Care About Patents. Should You?
Strategy Digital ArticleToday’s most successful companies are rethinking traditional notions of ownership. -
Is China Actually Stealing American Jobs and Wealth?
National competitiveness Digital ArticleIt’s a political talking point, so let’s look at the data. -
3 Myths About China’s IP Regime
Business law Digital ArticleFears of forced technology transfer are overblown. -
When Fandom Clashes with IP Law
Intellectual property Digital ArticleShould companies control all the ways people experience art? -
Why Companies Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Treat Their Diversity Numbers as Trade Secrets
Intellectual property ResearchSome tech firms are going out of their way to avoid uncomfortable disclosures. -
How Trade Secrets Hurt Innovation
Intellectual property ResearchThey restrict employee mobility. -
How the U.S., the EU, and Japan Are Trying to Rein in China's State Capitalism
Global Business Digital ArticleAt the top of the agenda are protecting IP and curbing state subsidies. -
Patent Trolling Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Moving to Delaware
Intellectual property ResearchThe recent Supreme Court ruling wasn’t a cure-all. -
The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit: It Should Be Easy to Poach Talent, But Not IP
Hiring and recruitment Digital ArticleNoncompetes are bad for innovation; protecting information is essential. -
How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage
Intellectual property Digital ArticleAnd how business travelers can respond. -
What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business
Intellectual property Digital ArticleMake yourself a harder target. -
Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works
Intellectual property Digital ArticleMovie studios and record companies should take note. -
Leading in a World Without Secrets
Leadership Digital ArticleChief Security Officers have some tough choices to make. -
Industrial Espionage Is More Effective Than R&D
National competitiveness Magazine ArticleTwo researchers look at the economic returns that spying produced during the Cold War. -
What the U.S. Should Be Doing to Protect Intellectual Property
Intellectual property Digital ArticleInnovation deserves protection. -
Everyday Business Travelers Are Easy Targets for Espionage
Intellectual property Digital ArticleTwelve ways to make yourself a harder target. -
The Weird Rules Governing What We Download
Intellectual property Digital ArticleDRM doesn’t protect content creators, and consumers hate it.
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Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details "Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics" explores the challenges associated with growing a start-up around a brand new technology. In October 2012, Eric... -
PlaceWare: Issues in Structuring a Xerox Technology Spinout
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Xerox has established a process to spin out technologies it develops that do not fit with its current business needs. To structure these "spinouts," a... -
Technology Commercialization at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The Department of Corporate Sponsored Research & Licensing (CSRL) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) serves as the primary interface between... -
Walt Disney's Dennis Hightower: Weaving Together the European Operations
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the actions taken by Dennis Hightower as president of Disney Consumer Products in Europe and the Middle East from 1988 to 1994. It... -
Marvel Enterprises, Inc. (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The management team of Marvel Enterprises, known for its universe of superhero characters that includes Spider-Man, the Hulk, and X-Men, must reevaluate... -
Nopane Advertising Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Nopane is a proprietary drug that sells in much of the United States. It faces substantial competition. The brand manager is undertaking an experiment... -
Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details The management team of Marvel Enterprises, known for its universe of superhero characters that includes Spider-Man, the Hulk, and X-Men, must reevaluate... -
Frasier (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2001, NBC entered into contract negotiations with Paramount Television Group to keep the hit show "Frasier" on the network. Paramount, the studio that... -
Alltech...naturally
Management Case Study6.95View Details Entrepreneur Pearse Lyons had built Alltech into the fastest growing company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative... -
Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) Chief Innovation Officer Christopher Coburn had overseen a period of exciting transformation and growth in healthcare... -
Nucleon, Inc.
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Nucleon is a small biotechnology company whose first potential product is about to enter clinical testing. Before Nucleon can begin clinical trials, however,... -
Opening Dot EU (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot EU." European Union regulations and... -
Qualcomm Inc., 2019
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case is set in mid-2019, when Qualcomm was struggling with unwanted take-over battles, fights with Apple and the Chinese government, and internal... -
Ensighten
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur... -
Shamrock Capital: Pricing the Masters of Taylor Swift
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the 2020 pricing decision for the master recordings of Taylor Swift's first six albums in consideration of a sale of the recordings... -
Intellectual Ventures Update 2020
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After raising $6 billion and buying 60,000 patents, Intellectual Venture was confronted with a changing legal environment. A number of important legal... -
CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the legal odyssey of two engineers who left their old employer to start a company that was directly competitive. The issues include employment... -
Sony and the JK Wedding Dance
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Executives at Sony Music Entertainment faced a dilemma: a user-generated video featuring controversial artist Chris Brown's music was netting millions... -
Amylin Pharmaceuticals: Diabetes and Beyond
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Ginger Graham, CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, joined the company with the expectation of taking the company's signature drug, Symlin, to market. However,...
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details "Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics" explores the challenges associated with growing a start-up around a brand new technology. In October 2012, Eric... -
How Trade Secrets Hurt Innovation
Intellectual property ResearchThey restrict employee mobility. -
Spreading Academic Entrepreneurship: Made in Mexico
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThis work presents REPITA (Research-Ecosystem-People-Intellectual Property-Transfer-Alignment), a prescriptive and repeatable model for successful technology-based... -
Treat Employees like Adults
Intellectual property Magazine ArticlePeople aren’t getting dumber, but they’re often treated that way. Politicians, educators, and the media assume the public is uncomfortable with nuance and grateful for prescribed solutions. Business, too, is being progressively dumbed down, not only by book authors who teach management by parable but also by managers themselves. Ironically, the infantilization of work is […] -
When Fandom Clashes with IP Law
Intellectual property Digital ArticleShould companies control all the ways people experience art? -
PlaceWare: Issues in Structuring a Xerox Technology Spinout
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Xerox has established a process to spin out technologies it develops that do not fit with its current business needs. To structure these "spinouts," a... -
What? Me, Worry?
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleMost executives think they’re security conscious—they change their passwords and shred important documents and so forth. But what rarely crosses their minds, says espionage expert H. Keith Melton, is that cloak-and-dagger types really are after their valuables. Just because you’re not paranoid, he observes, doesn’t mean they’re not following you. Melton, the author of Ultimate […] -
Entrepreneurs: Invent a Brand Name or Revive an Old One?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleDiscusses launching an entrepreneurial venture by acquiring a once popular brand name and reviving it. Ten executives were interviewed who acquired dormant...