Huddled with seven colleagues in a dimly lit hotel room in Morgantown, W.V., and bleary-eyed from days of reviewing thousands of pages of documents, a clandestine plan was being hatched that I now regret.
We were a due-diligence team working on behalf of a multinational corporation engaged in discussions with another company about the possible acquisition of its Morgantown chemical manufacturing facility. The two companies agreed it was premature to disclose the talks to either plant employees or shareholders.
via I was a corporate spy who learned tough lessons about business ethics – The Business Journals.
