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Legal Briefs: Measuring Social impact
It's a challenging and controversial topic in the for-profit world.
Business and philanthropy have traditionally formed a dichotomy. Business is the pursuit of monetary profits, philanthropy the pursuit of social good with donated money. This dichotomy has been eroding so that a complex spectrum has developed between business and philanthropy, with pure profits and pure charity situated at the extremes of that spectrum and the…
Legal Briefs: Keeping It Confidential
How to build a better nondisclosure agreement.
Over the last few years, the standard form of nondisclosure agreement (NDA) has undergone a revolution. The revolution has occurred in part because scientists and engineers are more savvy about protecting ideas and new technologies. It has also occurred because smaller companies are finding more and better ways to create synergies with larger companies. The…