The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reported that patent filings are down for 2009. Is this a symptom of the economy, or of the fact that the time it takes to successfully file a patent is a serious barrier to innovative entrepreneurs?

Read Mike Drummond’s article at Harvard Business Review for more.

One justification for the lower salaries of nonprofit employees relative to those of their for-profit peers is the idea of  “psychic benefit.” The emotional and spiritual riches one acquires from helping others are supposed to compensate for one’s lack of more worldly riches. Dan Pallotta of Harvard Business College believes that this argument is wrong on several levels.

Read the article here.