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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

In the past, trade secret law only protected well-defined knowledge such as the formula for Coca Cola or the code of software programs; now, in many states, the law also extends to cover less well defined knowledge, such as employee know-how, customer relations, basic skills, and knowledge that is not used commercially.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

The off-boarding process goes much more smoothly if you already have tools and systems in place to ensure that knowledge is constantly being transferred from experts to successors. “We had a tremendous amount of respect for Bob’s work and wanted to celebrate him” as well as capture his knowledge, she explains.