Alternative perspective shifts the focus from wealth distribution to wealth creation and upward mobility for the masses.

Teaching started as an act of defiance more than a career choice for Rajshree Agarwal, the Rudolph P. Lamone Chair and Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “I grew up in a traditional Indian family,” Agarwal says. “Along with the promise of an arranged marriage came the expectation that I would never work outside the home.”

Firms worried about knowledge leakage should be careful what they wish for when they lobby lawmakers to boost enforceability of loyalty agreements.