Intellectual property

When you allow an external expert to see company secrets, it can help boost innovation—but leave you vulnerable to information leakage.

Protecting confidential company information can increase employee stress, but also help them find meaning in their work.

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.

New research suggests an effective way to address it.

Strategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law.

Paying for stolen data — even when it’s your own — comes with substantial legal and reputational risks.

Congress needs to make it easier to enforce IP protections.

Today’s most successful companies are rethinking traditional notions of ownership.

It’s a political talking point, so let’s look at the data.

Fears of forced technology transfer are overblown.

Should companies control all the ways people experience art?

Some tech firms are going out of their way to avoid uncomfortable disclosures.

They restrict employee mobility.

At the top of the agenda are protecting IP and curbing state subsidies.

The recent Supreme Court ruling wasn’t a cure-all.

Noncompetes are bad for innovation; protecting information is essential.

And how business travelers can respond.

Make yourself a harder target.

Movie studios and record companies should take note.

Chief Security Officers have some tough choices to make.