When technology students at MIT ask Matt Marx whether they should take a job locally or head to California, he points to the fact that the Bay State allows companies to require employees to sign noncompete agreements – and California has banned them - as an argument to head west. “I say, all things being equal, I would go to California, because if things don’t work out, you’re not stuck (in the company)” said Marx, an assistant professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. “I hate to say it, because I live and work here,” he adds.
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