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Associations at Odds Over Proposed Massachusetts Ban on Noncompete Clauses

Associations Now

61 % The increase in court decisions regarding noncompete agreements between 2002 and 2012, according to a study conducted for the Wall Street Journal by the law firm Beck Reed Riden LLP. Webb told The Boston Herald. Such agreements are common for CEOs; 78.7 percent of chief executive contracts included such a clause in 2010.

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Moneyball and Management Innovation

Jamie Notter

At the end of the 2002 season the Boston Red Sox offered Billy Beane a job. The reams of data available to most small and mid-sized companies and associations through social media, Google analytics and other measurement tools are now statistically significant. But the challenge was picking out what matters.