Romney's Sneaky Business
Former Bain Employee on Romney's Sneaky business (he says he was a great boss but he was not fair to the businesses and employees in his sights)
...]But Bain and Co., the person recalls, pushed employees to find out secret revenue and sales data on its clients competitors. Romney, the person says, suggested falsifying who they were to get such information, by pretending to be a graduate student working on a project at Harvard. (The person, in fact, was a Harvard student, at Bain for the summer, but not working on any such projects.) Mitt said to me something like We wont ask you to lie. I am not going to tell you to do this, but [it is] a really good way to get the information.
I would not have had anything in my analysis if I had not pretended.
It was a strange atmosphere. It did leave a bad taste in your mouth, the former employee recalls.
This unsettling account suggests the young Romneyat that point only two years out of Harvard Business Schoolwas willing to push into gray areas when it came to business. More than three decades later, as he tried to nail down the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Romneys gray areas were again an issue when he repeatedly resisted calls to release more details of his net worth, his tax returns, and the large investments and assets held by him and his wife, Ann. Finally the other Republican candidates forced him to do so, but only highly selective disclosures were forthcoming.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts
The article also says because of his retirement agreement his interests in Bain are deeply entangled in his abitlity to still have some say in the business