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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business

In a 2003 survey of Inc 500 companies , only 21% were based on ideas the founders researched on their own. This isn’t to say that founders walked out the door with their employers’ intellectual property. These stories are the rule rather than the exception.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

While the years up to 2002 were a time of growth for the firm, 2003 to 2011 brought a whole new meaning to the word “expansion”. Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. FTI began a new trend of rapid, global growth. These include: Disputes Advisory Services. Public Policy.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

Consistent with the philosophy espoused in HBR way back in 2003 in the article The Myth of Secure Computing , business leaders will need to decide which of their information assets are so valuable that they want to invest a lot to protect them, and which they can’t afford to protect vigorously.

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