CASE ATUDY Kwaku Mensah was proud of his job as a new product manager for a technol he loved the challenges, risks and tough decisions that went along with the in his office after a long day, he was troubled, struggling over what had happ day and the information he now knows. Just before lunch, Kwaku's boss h pile of private strategic documents from their closest competitor. It wa intelligence gold mine - product plans, pricing strategies, partnership agred documents, most clearly marked 'private and confidential'. When Kwaku documents came from, his boss told him with a touch of pride that he had off the competing firm's server. 'I got into a private section of their intranet everything that looked interesting,' he said. Later, realizing Kwaku was sus would say only that he had obtained 'electronic accesses via a colleag personally broken any passwords. Maybe not, Kwaku thought to himself, wouldn't pass the 60 Minutes test. If word of this acquisition of a competi data ever got out to the press, the company's reputation would be ruined. K good about using these materials. He spent the afternoon searching for dilemma, but found no clear company policies or regulations that offered a
CASE ATUDY Kwaku Mensah was proud of his job as a new product manager for a technol he loved the challenges, risks and tough decisions that went along with the in his office after a long day, he was troubled, struggling over what had happ day and the information he now knows. Just before lunch, Kwaku's boss h pile of private strategic documents from their closest competitor. It wa intelligence gold mine - product plans, pricing strategies, partnership agred documents, most clearly marked 'private and confidential'. When Kwaku documents came from, his boss told him with a touch of pride that he had off the competing firm's server. 'I got into a private section of their intranet everything that looked interesting,' he said. Later, realizing Kwaku was sus would say only that he had obtained 'electronic accesses via a colleag personally broken any passwords. Maybe not, Kwaku thought to himself, wouldn't pass the 60 Minutes test. If word of this acquisition of a competi data ever got out to the press, the company's reputation would be ruined. K good about using these materials. He spent the afternoon searching for dilemma, but found no clear company policies or regulations that offered a
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