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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

For example, IBM got a court to enjoin a former IBM executive from taking a job at Apple; the executive had managed semiconductor and server engineering at IBM and IBM argued that he would inevitably disclose trade secrets in his new job managing iPod and iPhone engineering.

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage. Yet it happens all the time when companies make a practice of hiring back retirees as consultants to perform the same functions they did before, at higher pay.

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