Monthly Archives: January 2012

Employee Anti-Poaching Agreements Thwart the Free Market

Posted on January 27, 2012 by joe

An interesting case is playing out as we speak in Silicon Valley, where a group of high-tech employees has sued Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit over an alleged “gentlemen’s agreement” not to recruit each other’s employees. In In … Continue reading →

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What to do when your successful business unit is sold

Posted on January 20, 2012 by joe

Success is sometimes rewarded in strange ways, such as when a company sells off a highly profitable business unit in order to raise cash (as Nestle did when it bought Cadbury and as Barnes & Noble is considering doing with … Continue reading →

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Negotiating a severance package

Posted on January 3, 2012 by joe

Litigation avoidance is very high on most companies’ priority lists, and when a company is considering letting an executive go, one of their biggest concerns is how to keep their soon-to-be-former executive from hiring someone like me to file a … Continue reading →

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