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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. We also found three differences in marketing strategies, which may account for the performances of the two types of companies.

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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. This may lead inventors to rely more on the dual strategy of patent and trade secret protection for a single invention. The different forms of protection should be understood as an asset portfolio – you might want to diversify and spread your risk.