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    Martha McCaskey was assigned to lead a project called Silicon 6 that required gathering proprietary information about competitors from a former consultant, Phil Devon. McCaskey felt uncomfortable with this approach as it compromised her values and seemed like corporate espionage. On presentation day, while the clients were satisfied, McCaskey knew she had not done her best work as she disagreed with the methodology.

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    Martha McCaskey was assigned to lead a project called Silicon 6 that required gathering proprietary information about competitors from a former consultant, Phil Devon. McCaskey felt uncomfortable with this approach as it compromised her values and seemed like corporate espionage. On presentation day, while the clients were satisfied, McCaskey knew she had not done her best work as she disagreed with the methodology.

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    Martha McCaskey was assigned to lead a project called Silicon 6 that required gathering proprietary information about competitors from a former consultant, Phil Devon. McCaskey felt uncomfortable with this approach as it compromised her values and seemed like corporate espionage. On presentation day, while the clients were satisfied, McCaskey knew she had not done her best work as she disagreed with the methodology.

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    Martha McCaskey was assigned to lead a project called Silicon 6 that required gathering proprietary information about competitors from a former consultant, Phil Devon. McCaskey felt uncomfortable with this approach as it compromised her values and seemed like corporate espionage. On presentation day, while the clients were satisfied, McCaskey knew she had not done her best work as she disagreed with the methodology.

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    MARTHA McCaskey

    GROUP MEMBERS
    MANISHA SHARMA
    RAGHU RAMRAO
    SURYA TEJA
    LAKSHAY GUPTA
    KUNAL GOKHALE
    SAUMAYA JAISWAL
    SHUBHAM MAHESHWARI

    OVERVIEW
    Martha McCaskey, an Electrical Engineer and MBA graduate
    from Harvard is a project leader in Seleris Associates IAD has
    been assigned a project called SILICON 6. She was assigned to
    gather information to identify manufacturing technology and
    cost of its competitors new chip .She met Phil Devon, who had
    worked earlier as a consultant in the competitors West Coast
    operations in southern California, to get proprietary information
    related to silicon 6 competitors. On working with this project
    she felt she was compromising her values on proprietary
    information and she felt that she was doing corporate spying
    .She was very disinterested with the project. On presentation
    day even though the clients management was satisfied with her
    work but she was not at her best as she was earlier in her
    previous projects.

    Q1.As McCaskey what is your plan of


    action for finishing the Silicon 6 project?
    Firstly I would meet Phil Devon and explain him the situation of my

    uncomfortability of working with the project as I realised that I was


    going against my moral values because I felt that I was getting into
    corporate espionage.
    I will suggest Devon that I would use my cognisance of my prior
    education along with his industry experience for completing the
    project.
    Since Devon has a prior experience of setting up a plant and I have
    specialised in Electrical engineering along with a course on chip
    design, this will help me in coming with a solution for this project.

    Q.2 What is troubling McCaskey? Do


    you agree with her assessment of the
    situation?
    McCaskey is troubled because her conscience was
    not willing to follow the current approach of
    extracting proprietary information since the inception
    of the project.
    We agree with her assessment of this situation
    because the principles of business ethics were
    compromised.

    Q.3 Was the situation avoidable? How


    did McCaskey end up in this situation?
    The situation was unavoidable as McCaskey was
    not completely convinced with the approach
    Her presentation with the client was not that effective
    as it was evident that she did not provide new
    information, but when she cited the sources of
    information the clients were pleased with her efforts.

    CONCLUSION
    Our understanding from the case is that in
    business decisions the dilemma is between
    values and profit oriented results but the best
    solution could be the blend of both.

    THANK YOU

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