Quelques articles sur l’espionnage entre compagnies
Confessions of a Corporate Spy
George Chidi
What do you think it means to be an expert in “hard-to-get elicitation”? It means people tell you things. A competitive intelligence consultant discusses things that can help a business–at the expense of another.
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The Secret Keeper
Jules Kroll and the world of corporate intelligence.
William Finnegan
If there is a gold standard in the corporate intelligence world, it’s Kroll Inc., Jules B. Kroll’s namesake consulting group. Here the New Yorker profiles Mr. Kroll, who is “widely credited with having created an industry where there was none.”
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A Spy in the Jungle
How an American company tried to lure a young journalist into a life of corporate espionage
Mary Cuddehe
Cuddehe was a freelance reporter with a busted rental car in a Cancún parking lot when a friend called with a “research” job:
…an offer from Kroll, one of the world’s largest private investigation firms, to go undercover as a journalist-spy in the Ecuadorian Amazon. At first I thought I was underqualified for the job. But as it turned out I was exactly what they were looking for: a pawn.
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The Pizza Plot
Schwan’s knew that Kraft was going to roll out a new kind of frozen pizza. In order to compete, it needed to find out certain things about its rival. To do that, the company would have to be very sneaky.
ADAM L. PENENBERG AND MARC BARRY
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Drug Spies Piracy is the pharmaceutical industry’s dirty little secret; fighting back has become its dirty little war. With the stakes this high, there are no rules, no conventions. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been prisoners.
By Richard Behar