1 You are working on a proposal for a large project with an important privately owned client. The award will be based on a number of factors, including the qualifications of the proposed management team. A close friend of yours works for a competing firm, which is also submitting a proposal for the same project. One afternoon, while the proposal is still in progress, you meet your friend for lunch. While you are waiting for your food, your friend confides to you that her company has “embellished”

their proposed project manager’s resume with some false project experience to make him look better. She swears you to secrecy, but she just “had to tell someone.”

 What do you do with this information?

 Your company’s code of ethics includes Service as a core value and emphasizes the interests of your customers. Does this mean you owe it to the client to reveal what your friend told you about your competitor?