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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately for the authors, one of the star companies in their star-struck book was Enron, whose top brass boasted about the ambitious, aggressive, sharp-elbowed individualists who populated its ranks. He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

For another, Prime had embedded a great deal of "tacit knowledge" into some of the components — knowledge that was more "know why" than pure know-how. Third, to be blunt, Blue Sky's engineers didn't seem all that sharp when it came to systems engineering. For one thing, Blue Sky was buying only select components.