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How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating

Harvard Business Review

Yet when it comes to lower-level employees responsible for gathering competitive intelligence, those same lawyers impose Draconian rules that prevent employees from speaking with a competitor directly, or even engaging a third party to speak with a competitor on their behalf.

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Case Study: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

Her first job out of college had been with a management consultancy, and she had been staffed right away on a project with a cybersecurity firm. She’d saved some money during her three years of consulting before business school, but not enough to pay San Francisco rent. Susan had badly wanted this internship. “Not yet.