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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Third, to be blunt, Blue Sky's engineers didn't seem all that sharp when it came to systems engineering.