article thumbnail

Antibodies: Individual Stars Can Destroy Culture

N2Growth Blog

Tech companies pay dearly for engineering talent; universities get into bidding wars for gifted professors, and NBA and other professional sports teams shell out hundreds of millions of dollars for star players. Hardy shares an interesting, somewhat counterintuitive observation in today’s world.

article thumbnail

What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

There’s a lot of thinking in the research these days on the gap between the codified knowledge that is patentable and gets disclosed versus tacit knowledge that really exists in how you actually produce,” says Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego specializing in intellectual property.

article thumbnail

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.