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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. So, the question is: What are the most critical intangible assets in your company?

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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

To answer that question, we compared the performance of 148 publicly listed family-owned companies between 2000 and 2009 with that of 127 non-family businesses using Standard & Poor’s Compustat database. Just how do family businesses perform during recessions, when only the strong survive? during the growth years to 0.8

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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. These choices are strategic, and a company must think about the broader picture too of the overall intangible assets your company possesses. This change may further tip the balance for more reliance on secrecy for certain innovations.