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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

One of her primary duties during the summer would be helping him with market research by reaching out to other technology firms, including direct competitors, for information on products, services offered, customers, sales, and other data. A quick search showed that he was Zantech’s head of market research for Asia.