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Published on: 7/22/2001
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"It's as close as I'll get to playing James Bond without being shot at," said Michael A. George, president of H. Wolf Ltd., a Raleigh-based firm that performs competitive research for companies.
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Still, George, the president of H. Wolf, said there is a sense among companies that gathering competitive intelligence is somehow shady.Most of his clients don't want him to reveal their identities.
"They make me sign non-disclosure forms, so I have no references," George said at the recent meeting of the local SCIP chapter."No one wants to admit that I worked for them."
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