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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
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 […] -
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 […] -
3 Myths About China’s IP Regime
Business law Digital ArticleFears of forced technology transfer are overblown. -
Think Like an Author, Not an Owner
Economics Digital ArticleThe story of Disney and Pixar. -
How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd how business travelers can respond. -
U.S. Competitiveness and the Chinese Challenge
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAmerica needs to restore confidence in the country's innovation machine. -
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. -
The People Who Make Organizations Go—or Stop
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe real work in most companies is done informally, through personal contacts. How can executives manage such amorphous networks? Start by focusing on those employees who play four critical linking roles. -
Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works
Intellectual property Digital ArticleMovie studios and record companies should take note. -
Needed: A New System of Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleSqueezing today’s innovations into yesterday’s system simply won’t work. -
Where Napster Is Taking the Publishing World
Web-based technologies Magazine ArticleFree distribution over the Internet will revolutionize not just the music industry but all of publishing. Bad news? Maybe not—the end result could actually be more revenue, not less, for companies with the courage to focus on developing talent rather than on pushing units. -
Patent Trolling Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Moving to Delaware
Intellectual property ResearchThe recent Supreme Court ruling wasn’t a cure-all. -
Will Our Partner Steal Our IP? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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... -
License to Overkill (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleSheldon Bloomfield, senior vice-president of character properties for Multi-Media Worldwide, has a hit with Baby Ruby. Originally a children's book character,... -
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... -
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 […] -
America’s Looming Creativity Crisis
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleThe United States built the world’s most powerful economy by producing and attracting human capital. Is America throwing that advantage away? -
Big Tech Has a Patent Violation Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleCongress needs to make it easier to enforce IP protections. -
Leading in a World Without Secrets
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleChief Security Officers have some tough choices to make.
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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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Shutout Solutions
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After working together on a university business plan, two entrepreneurs had worked for three years to develop their venture: Shutout Solutions Inc. Their... -
HUTCHMED: Accounting for Revenue Recognition in a Biopharmaceutical Company
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the accounting treatment of revenue recognition for a biopharmaceutical company in the life sciences sector, HUTCHMED (China) Limited... -
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
Finance & Accounting BookBrian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest... -
Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group-Sailing Downwind, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details North Sails is the world's leading sailmaker. The company commands a global market share of more than 50% and is largely responsible for the rapid technological... -
Legal and Profitable? Spotify: The Challenges of an Online Music Service, French Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Spotify is an on-demand music streaming service founded in Sweden in 2006, in a music industry in crisis. It offers online music consumers legal access... -
Marvel Enterprises, Inc., Spanish Version
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... -
Alpine Confections: The Making of Something Sweet
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details An entrepreneurial candy manufacturer analyzes the confections market distribution channels and its resources to compete against large suppliers while... -
CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A), Spanish Version
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... -
The U.S. - China Trade War, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study15.05View Details On December 1, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump and China's Leader Xi Jinping faced each other across a dinner table during a G20 meeting in Buenos Aires,... -
Marketing New York City
Sales & Marketing Case Study12.00View Details New York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization... -
Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A), Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency... -
Financing Anghami's Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, less than two years into the founding of their music-streaming platform Anghami, cofounders Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun found themselves... -
Frasier (A), Portuguese Version
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... -
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... -
Geographical Indications: I Say
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In April 2005, Alexandra was the owner of an Australian farm that produced olives, including Kalamata table olives. Alexandra had invested in the expansion... -
Philips' Compact Disc Introduction (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Asks that students adopt the perspective of Philips in 1979, after technical development of the CD was complete, but three years before it was introduced... -
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... -
Primateria AB: Scaling Up and Protecting IP
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Swedish technology start-up Primateria AB (Primateria) was founded in November of 2004 with the main idea to provide science-backed consulting services... -
A Note on the Legal and Tax Implications of Founders' Equity Splits
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note summarizes key legal and tax issues that founders should consider as they contemplate an equity split and ownership structure. Specific issues...
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
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 […] -
Primateria AB: Scaling Up and Protecting IP, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case W24938 -
Shutout Solutions
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details After working together on a university business plan, two entrepreneurs had worked for three years to develop their venture: Shutout Solutions Inc. Their... -
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 […] -
3 Myths About China’s IP Regime
Business law Digital ArticleFears of forced technology transfer are overblown. -
Think Like an Author, Not an Owner
Economics Digital ArticleThe story of Disney and Pixar. -
HUTCHMED: Accounting for Revenue Recognition in a Biopharmaceutical Company
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the accounting treatment of revenue recognition for a biopharmaceutical company in the life sciences sector, HUTCHMED (China) Limited... -
How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd how business travelers can respond. -
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
Finance & Accounting BookBrian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest...