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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

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. A quick search showed that he was Zantech’s head of market research for Asia. Moon with contact lists and sample inquiries attached. It seems like lying.