Fight the Power?
Orly’s book is terrific. Let’s just get that straight. The book is filled with the kind of creative energy that Orly’s reform proposals seek to release. But the emerging (or worse, entrenched) fud in...
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Introducing the Talent Wants To Be Free Symposium
This week Concurring Opinions is hosting a symposium on Professor Orly Lobel’s book, Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding. In simplest terms, Professor...
View ArticleThe benefits of being free
I applaud Orly for this excellent contribution. There is much to praise and much to comment on. I was particularly attracted to the interdisciplinary perspective of the book and its heavy reliance on...
View ArticleTalent Wants to be Appreciated
Orly’s book is terrific–a model for pulling together theory, stories, and data to argue for a dynamic system of free-flowing employees, resources, and ideas. I am persuaded that non-competes and other...
View ArticleBeyond Lawyers: Thoughts on Talent Wants To Be Free
This book is a terrific synthesis of many literatures on legal rules regulating employee-generated intellectual property, human capital, and the nature of innovation. Through her broad and perceptive...
View ArticleHuman Capital, Tacit Knowledge, and the Limits of Intellectual Property
Orly’s ambitious and thought-provoking book covers a significant amount of intellectual ground. She deftly navigates covenants not to compete, nondisclosure agreements, trade secrets, and intellectual...
View ArticleTalent Wants To Be Free Symposium: Lending Support to Lawmakers and Raising...
Like my fellow symposium participants, I loved Orly’s book. As Catharine Fisk noted, Orly’s stories and lessons, informed by literature, experiments, and more, captivated me. Beside teaching me much,...
View ArticleHuman Capital Law and Innovation Policy
This is a thrilling week for Talent Wants to Be Free. I am incredibly honored and grateful to all the participants of the symposium and especially to Deven Desai for putting it all together. It’s only...
View ArticleTalent Flow and the Theory of the Firm
Both Vic Fleisher and Shubha Ghosh in their thoughtful commentary about Talent Wants to Be Free invoke the theory of the firm to raise question about the extent of desirable freedom in talent and...
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Management Wants Precarity: A California Ideology for Employment Law
The reader of Talent Wants to be Free effectively gets two books for the price of one. As one of the top legal scholars on the intersection of employment and intellectual property law, Prof. Lobel...
View ArticleInput Knowledge, Output Information, and the Irony of Under the Radar...
Peter Lee’s thoughtful review of Talent Wants to Be Free goes straight to the heart of the issues. Peter describes a “central irony about information” – so many aspects of our knowledge cannot lend...
View ArticleTalent Wants to Be In Control
Many thanks to Deven and Orly for organizing this online symposium and for letting me join in. Talent Wants to Be Free is a real tour de force: original and engaging, thoughtful and thought-provoking....
View ArticleA Time for Action: The Double Gain of Freer Regions and the Double Speak...
As Catherine Fisk and Danielle Citron point out in their thoughtful reviews here and here, the wisdom of freeing talent must go beyond private firm level decisions; beyond the message to corporations...
View ArticleThe Hard Questions about Talent, Market Regulation, and the World of Work
Each in his own sharp and perceptive way, Brett Frischmann, Frank Pasquale and Matthew Bodie present what are probably the hardest questions that the field of human capital law must contemplate. Brett...
View ArticleThe Age of Mass Mobility: Freedom and Insecurity
In Talent Wants to Be Free, Orly Lobel’s masterfully demonstrates the importance to business, employees, and society at large of workers who are free to move and free to innovate. The symposium this...
View ArticleIndividuals & Teams, Carrots & Sticks
I promised Victor Fleisher to return to his reflections on team production. Vic raised the issue of team production and the challenge of monitoring individual performance. In Talent Wants to Be Free I...
View ArticleWhat Sort of Innovation?
Professor Lobel’s book raises many questions. That is a good thing. I like books that connect to ideas that have been pinging about my brain and that spur new ones. Talent Wants to be Free does those...
View ArticleTalent Timing Paradox
There is a hidden paradox in Talent Wants to be Free: There is time to lock down, and a time to set free (maybe to sow, reap, and more too). Lobel notes that some work indicates that early stage...
View ArticleFree Labor, Free Organizations,Competition and a Sports Analogy
I have enjoyed the discussion on Orly’s book and thought of an interesting analogy to sports that is worth sharing. The inspiration was Haddock, Jacobi, & Sag, “League Structure & Stadium Rent...
View ArticleThe Dualities of Freedom and Innovation
What a rollercoaster week of incredibly thoughtful reviews of Talent Wants to Be Free! I am deeply grateful to all the participants of the symposium. In The Age of Mass Mobility: Freedom and...
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