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How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating

Harvard Business Review

When HP's ex-CEO Mark Hurd headed to Oracle this fall, his former employer sued him , claiming that by taking the job he put "HP's most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril." Such unrealistic rules are no more likely to stop the flow of competitive information than Prohibition stopped the flow of liquor.

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Case Study: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

.” Still unsure of how to respond—or how frank she could be since her father had also told her that direct confrontation was frowned up in most Asian cultures—she simply said, “OK.” ” She asked a few follow-up questions about the information she was supposed to get, and then hung up.