<p>Big numbers of students and suspensions.</p>
<p>who the hell cheats in b-school? and who is dumb enough to collaborate in cheating on such a large scale? a bunch of halfwits. even a suspension or failure is going to follow them around -- everyone is going to know about this cheating scandal.</p>
<p>this is going to suck for those fellow Fuqua graduates who didn't do anything wrong, its just an unnecessary / unfair reputational hit (at least for this and the following year).</p>
<p>HONOR CODE:
<a href="http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/admin/stuserv/student_affairs/hnrcode.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/admin/stuserv/student_affairs/hnrcode.html</a></p>
<p>"Survey: MBA students cheat most in grad school"</p>
<p>No reason to cheat when GPA doesn't even matter (unless you're a banker)</p>
<p>When I went to a top MBA program in the early 80s, I was not aware of anyone cheating. Unless you aspire to the honor society, grades didn't count for much as long as you didn't fall below certain standards. I think only one potential employer looked at my grades (which were good BTW). But I did not want consulting (so many wanted this career then) and Ibanking.</p>
<p>wonder how that's going to affect their ranking</p>
<p>It's hard for me to understand why MBA students cheat the most. How hard can business courses be anyway? I guess amount of cheating and course difficulty don't really correlate.</p>
<p>On the contrary, can they honest expect students NOT to collaborate on a take-home exam? The whole concept of non-collaborative take-home exam seem pretty lame to me.</p>
<p>The honor code is the bedrock principle for many universities, including all the places that I attended. It is not something to be taken lightly. Sure, people do cheat on occasion. But those who are caught red-handed often face severe consequences. I am actually very surprised that Fuqua removes certain offenses from transcript after 1-3 years. In a few academic cheating cases that I know, the offenses led to practically the end of one's academic career.</p>
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Absolutely! How could we expect less?! These students are trained to be your and my future retirement fund manager or executives of public corporations, and maybe another President of United States. Oops on the last one.</p>
<p>From that survey:
" Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted they had cheated at least once in the last year, compared with 47 percent of non-business students."</p>
<p>So the difference isn't that big. Part of it is the nature of the work. In traditional grad school, quite a few students are completely done with courses. Cheating in research isn't worth it because whoever you cheat from might review your paper.</p>