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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. Respondents from the U.S. Are the alarm bells ringing yet?

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Case Study: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

At first, Susan Kim wasn’t sure whether she’d heard her new manager correctly. Mr. Moon (as Susan had been told to call him by her half-Korean father, Don) was the Seoul office manager of Zantech, a technology security firm with headquarters in Amsterdam. Moon added, “This is common practice.