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Competitive Information Policy at Pratt & Whitney

By: Lynn S. Paine
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Abstract

Officials at United Technologies Corp. (UTC) must decide on an ethics policy to govern competitive intelligence gathering. The flow of competitor information into the Pratt & Whitney division has declined sharply since adoption of UTC's code of ethics. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

Keywords

Policy; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Competition; Information Management; Business or Company Management; Law

Citation

Paine, Lynn S. "Competitive Information Policy at Pratt & Whitney." Harvard Business School Case 394-154, February 1994. (Revised July 2005.)
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