...Cheating in Business Schools and Creating a Culture of Integrity Nichole M. Roberts NorthCentral University Northcentral takes pride on the stature of giving its graduates the opportunity to earn a “U.S. Regionally accredited degree” (Mission Statement, 2012). Along with mentors, academic advisors, librarians, the writing center, deans and many other individuals; they all strive to keep students on the right path. Along that path, there could be temptation to veer from an honest path and cheat. Cheating could be getting someone else to write a paper for a class, taking a test with a group of students or using technology to outwit the program students are utilizing for class. If we are to become “valuable contributors to our communities and professions” (Mission Statement, 2012) we should take our classroom work and academics on a serious note by following the values Northcentral University set aside for students. The values of Northcentral University are made up of an acronym. “I.D.E.A.” founded through the integrity of values formulated at Northcentral have become a very serious guideline for the graduate and undergraduate MBA programs. Linda K. Trevino of Smeal College of Business stated that cheating is more prevalent in business schools than regular colleges. Some say it has to do with whom business school appeals to. Others say that is could possibly have to do with what is taught and learned throughout the journey of business school. With the problem...
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...KOZMINSKI UNIVERSITY Management in context Business School Lausanne - Case Study BSL: A Business School in Transition ARNAUD Félix – 25777 Submission Date : 05-11-2012 Academic Year 2012/2013 Semester: Fall I hereby certify that this paper is the result of my own work and that all sources I used have been reported. -------------------------------------------------Signature © Kozminski University 2012 BSL Case Study 1. Please evaluate the decisions of Katrin muff from the side of: Situation on the market Employees of Business School In 1987, Business School of Lausanne was founded in Lausanne by Dr. John Hobbs. In that times, on the real distinction from more traditional business schools was the fact that most of the teaching was done by practitioners. Ten years later, the Lemania Group acquired Business School of Lausanne (BSL) and Philippe du Pasquier became President and Managing Director. To become one of the leading innovators in business education, BSL restructured its MBA and EMBA programs in 2009 by the will of the new Dean of BSL, Dr Katrin Muff who was appointed at this function in 2008. As the new BSL’s Dean, Dr Muff, with her entrepreneurial and corporate background, made news decisions in 2008 to get the business school back a stable financial situation and to become again a dynamic business school. For her, this business school is an established faculty with a certain age where the need for new blood is essential...
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..._________ BSL: A Business School in Transition (A) – The Challenge Sitting at her desk and gazing at the gathering clouds over the lake in Zurich (Switzerland), Katrin Muff was tapping her elegant pen on the writing pad in front of her. The page was covered with four blocks of scribbled notes. She smiled with the realization that, without intending to produce a SWOTi analysis, she had in fact organized her views about the Swiss film production company she had been working with into the familiar four categories. She was still not entirely convinced that she had made the right decision a few minutes earlier on the phone, when she firmly announced to the Director of the film company that she had decided not to invest in his venture, and not to join him as a full Partner. It had been a difficult decision to make; since early childhood she had nurtured the fantasy of some day writing and directing films that would tell a dramatic story, maybe even influence lives. Working with the director of the Swiss film production company for the past eighteen months, she could not help but admit to herself that producing films in fact entailed running around to find and structure the financing, and endless arguments with distribution companies, and constantly making deals that did not stick. Even the glamour of participating in the annual rituals at the Cannes Film Festival somehow did not compensate for all the superficiality that she had discovered the film business entailed. The ringing...
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...Contribution and Diversity Questions Your background, experiences, and values will enhance and diversify Kellogg. How? (1-2 double-spaced pages) The Darden School seeks a diverse and unique entering class of future managers. How will your distinctiveness enrich our learning environment and enhance your prospects for success as a manager? Every essay question on the admissions application is geared toward the same thing. Committee members want to find out who you are, what makes you different from everyone else, and how you will contribute to the school if accepted. This question asks these things outright. Because it asks so directly what the admissions committee wants to know, this is one of the most common questions you will find. The question has a structure similar to the Why M.B.A.? question. It asks both Why us? and Why you? However, the nature of this question lends itself to a more personal response. Whereas the Why M.B.A.? question asks what you have done, what you want to do, and how that relates to the school, this question asks about who you are and how it relates to the school. The Why M.B.A.? question asks about your experiences, and this question asks about your qualities. Just as you brainstormed about your experiences, actions, and goals for the first question, brainstorm about your qualities and characteristics for this one. What sets you apart from everyone else? What words do friends and family use to describe you? For some people, the focus...
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...(1) I believe that business schools are trying to respond to the social requirement of educating more ethical and social responsible business leaders. As the author suggests, however, I believe that this might be a long process and its results will be hard to predict. I have heard, for example, of a special interdisciplinary business school curriculum implemented by several institutions (Giving Voice to Values) which focuses on the implementation of ethics in the workplace. These kinds of programs suggest that business schools are trying to move to a different direction, where the main goal of the business leaders is to generate and manage a responsible growth. Generally speaking, I think that there is still a lot to be done and that business schools should focus more on the quality of their graduates as responsible and careful managers and not only as brilliant performers in terms of profits and earnings. (2) I don't believe that business schools alone should be accused. Of course the financial scandals of the recent years which have been orchestrated by MBA graduates have put the business schools in a bad light but this should not take us to the wrong syllogism that all the MBA graduates are irresponsible managers and excellent cheaters . By logic, not all the MBA graduates can be cheaters and lead to economic and social disasters. There is a misconception and generalisation, in my opinion, that lead to think that every student who applies for an MBA wants only to make more...
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...Owning and running a business has always been my dream. I always had a strong conviction that I would start my own business and run it successfully. My parents had tried this before but, they had failed due to poor managerial tactics. To overcome those certain pitfalls, I realized the need to find out the best business solution methods and avoid the path that my parents went through. However, I never imagined that I would study business in one of the best business schools in America. The idea of joining an American University occurred to me when I was admitted into the 2012 Harvard College Summit for Young Leaders in China. This event was an eye opener and prompted me through a series of discoveries of the American culture and education system. After a thorough analysis of the American’s way of life and their education, I was convinced that this is where I would perfect my business skills and prepare myself for my career business. The behavioral features that interested me most about the American students is their innovativeness, independence, open-mindedness, and their ability to work as a team. These are some of the skills that really impressed me, and, which, I thought would go a long way in enhancing my chances for starting and running a business. During the HCSYLC event, I invited two Harvard students to choreograph a dance that was quite successful. We related quite well and the experience I had with those two gave me an insight on how intelligent and innovative they were...
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...GRAZIADIO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR CHUCK MCPEAK MBAM-601.13 ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKERS FALL 2006 WENESDAY 8-12 AM MALIBU SYLLABUS ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKERS MBAM-601.13 FALL 2006 Wednesday 8-12 AM Malibu Chuck McPeak 217 23rd St. Manhattan Beach CA 90266 Office (310) 506-4879 Home (310) 545-6921 FAX (310) 546-7671 Email cmcpeak@pepperdine.edu Course Description The primary emphasis of this study is to place sophisticated tools and techniques in the hands of primary users in making business decisions. Specific topics include cost behavior analysis, cost management systems, relevant cost analysis, performance measurement, and value-based management control systems. The course also includes presentations in teams whereby the students apply the course material. Course objectives At the conclusion of this course the student should be able to communicate cost information orally and in writing and should demonstrate managerial level analysis and decision making in the following areas: 1.Cost-Profit-Volume Analysis 2.Master budgeting 3.Relevant revenues 4.Management control systems 5.Performance measurement 6.Activity based costing 7.Job order costing 8.Ethical issues and the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley 9.The use of production data and information technology to solve business problems Text and Course Materials 1.Horngren, Foster & Datar “Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis”, Twelfth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006 2.Harvard Business School Case 9-198-117...
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...MA Assignment Were business schools to blame for the financial crisis? What should business schools do to help prevent similar crises in the future? The financial crisis in 2008 involved banks with the ability to generate a large sum of money in a short space of time, causing house prices to rise and the financial market to fluctuate. The debts created from loans awarded by the banks outweighed the income costs, which backfired upon the bank, causing a financial crisis (Positive Money (BSD), 2015). There were many reasons to blame for the pandemonium within the financial market during this period of time. This paper will examine whether business schools in particular, contributed to the financial crisis and will explore what business schools could do to prevent similar crises in the future. There have been negative spotlights upon graduates entering the banking world. Jonathan Slack, representative of 114 UK business schools stated that students with MBAs achieved higher positions within the corporate world, who are found to instigate high-risk taking (The Guardian, 2009). Graduates were seen to lack acknowledgement for factors such as value and ethics at this level of high risk taking and believe they can complete the work set without consideration of these factors (Podolny, 2009). Although much emphasis is upon graduates to produce profit and developing a business to success after graduating from a business school, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is just...
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...ankaj Ghemawat, Raymond Hill, L.G. Thomas "Southern Co. Investment in CEMIG" Harvard Business School Case 707-512 In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive privatization of Brazil's electric sector. Brazil's privatization was, in turn, part of a world wide movement toward deregulation and privatization of the electric sector. Like many of its rivals in the utility sector, Southern had committed itself to a strategy of growth by taking advantage of the significant opportunities for cross-border investment that were being created by this trend. The privatization of CEMIG was a particularly appealing opportunity for Southern. Not only was CEMIG one of the largest utilities in Latin America, but this investment would provide a base in the Brazilian market, which was expected to have the largest potential for further growth on the continent. Brazil was in the process of reforming its system of regulating electric utilities and of introducing competition into Brazil's wholesale generating market. These changes would further enhance the potential profitability of investing in CEMIG. In addition to the attractiveness of the investment, Southern had been able to secure non-recourse financing for half of the required amount. Keeping in mind Brazil's volatile economic history...
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...case 11 Ss&sm$ ef ffsrsfsresst The School of Business, one unit in a public university enrolling over 40,000 students, has approximately 2,100 students in its bachelor's, master's, and doctorate programs emphasizing such areas of business as accounting, finance, information and operations management, marketing, management, and others. Because the School of Business must serve a diverse student population on limited resources, it feels it is important to accurately measure students' satisfaction with the school's programs and services. Accurate measurement of srudent satisfaction will enable the school to target improvement efforts to those areas of greatest concern to students, whether that be by major, r,rppott services, or some other aspect of their educational experience. The school feels that improving its service to its customers (students) will result in more satisfied alumni, better community relations, additional applicans, and increased corporate involvement. Because graduate and undergraduate students are believed to have different expectations and needs, the school plans to investigate the satisfaction of these two groups separately. In a previous survey of graduating seniors using open-ended questions, three primary areas of concern were identified: the faculty, classes/curriculum, and resources. Resources consisted of five specific areas: Undergraduate Advising Services, the Learning Center, Computer Facilities, the Library, and the Career ...
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...promise to give them a sense of identity they cannot develop for themselves. At risk youths- young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of school failure, substance abuse, and early sexuality. Juvenile delinquency- participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit. Chronic juvenile offenders- youths who have been arrested four or more time during their minority and perpetuate a striking majority of serious criminal acts. This small group known as the chronic 6 percent is believed to engage in a significant portion of all delinquent behavior. Juvenile justice system- the segment of the justice system, including law enforcement officers, the courts, and correctional agencies, designed to treat youthful offenders. FBI- Federal Bureau of Investigation- is the arm of the U.S. Dept. of Justice that investigates violations of federal law, gathers crime statistics, runs a comprehensive crime laboratory, and helps train local law enforcement officers. UCR- Uniform Crime Reports- complied by the FBI, the UCR is the most widely used source of national crime and delinquency statistics Sampling- selecting a limited number of people for study as representative of a larger group Population- all people who share a particular characteristic, such as all high school students or all police officers Dark figures of crime- Incidents of crime and delinquency that go undetected by police. Racial Threat Theory- as the size of the African...
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...Teachers and school leaders: making a difference through evidence-based practice A research paper for ACT Government schools ISBN 978-0-9757487-4-9 © Australian Capital Territory, Canberra 2007 Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright ACT 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the ACT Department of Education and Training, ACT Government, PO Box 1584, Tuggeranong ACT 2901. Produced for the ACT Department of Education and Training by the Measurement, Monitoring and Reporting Directorate. Telephone: Canberra 6205 9214 Fax: Canberra 6205 8353 ACT Government Homepage address 2 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to provide a research base for the ACT Department of Education and Training’s discussion paper for ACT government school teachers: Teachers and school leaders: making a difference through evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice is defined as the collection and analysis of relevant data and research and the application of this evidence to teaching and learning and to whole school improvement. The conceptual framework of the School Excellence Initiative underpins the paper. This places student achievement and learning at the centre of any discussion. In the research literature, there are many, often contradictory definitions of data, information and knowledge. This paper will use ‘data’ as a collective (singular) noun and define terms as follows: • data: a collection...
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...GLOBALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions This page intentionally left blank GLOBALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions Report of the AACSB International Globalization of Management Education Task Force AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business 777 South Harbour Island Boulevard Suite 750 Tampa, Florida 33602-5730 USA Tel: + 1-813-769-6500 Fax: + 1-813-769-6559 www.aacsb.edu United Kingdom North America Japan India Malaysia China Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2011 Copyright r 2011 AACSB International. Reprints and permission service Contact: booksandseries@emeraldinsight.com No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the copyright holder or a license permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the text, illustrations or advertisements. The opinions expressed in these chapters are not necessarily those of the Editor or the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication...
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...competencies are those activities that are critical to a business achieving competitive advantage. Senior management cannot focus on all activities of a business and the competencies required undertaking them. So the goal is for management to focus attention on competencies that really affect competitive advantage. School of Business (SOB) it would important to divide the goals that they want to achieve and treat them as separate. For example, the finance department should develop goals to make the program better for the students. Every major program should develop little attainable goals in order to make school better as a whole. The school should create alliances with other business schools in the area and see what are their weaknesses and what can they do to make them better. Big companies could create job opportunities as well as sponsor programs that would incentive students to attend to East Central. In my opinion creating more online courses would be a plus for the school. This would create an opportunity for students that work far away from campus to access the classes. Also scholarship could be an incentive for students to come join the school of business. Current students also could be rewarded for their grades in some kind of way. In the long run they should try to create bigger master programs as well as advising centers that will help students start at a good job. Those are some of the initiatives the school should pursue in the long run. As the article says, one...
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... - In my opinion, I think Cavanaugh is true about the method that most of the school of business often teach to students for becoming leaders of tomorrow. As a business students at Quinlan School of Business, I’ve always been taught to be a good leader whenever I join into real business world. Once, my business ethic professor, Al Gini, said “To become a good leader, a leader should teach his follower to become a good leader too”. Besides, during the ethic class, professor Gini gave us many cases about bad leadership, such as Enron, Ford Pinto case, and so on. With all of the lessons that I gained in business school, I have learned that schools of business nowadays prepare their students to become future leaders by acknowledging today’s businesses problems. I believe that I can become one of those leaders after I graduate. Because, to become a manager, we mustn’t have a job first in order to become manager. We are the managers of our life. Although we start from the smallest thing in our life, we are the leaders of it who make the decision either it’s good or bad. 2.) What are the issues that you will face in, say, 10-15 years for which we, in the Quinlan School of Business, are to prepare you? - During my study in Quinlan School of Business, I realize that there may some issues that I will be faced with. For example, those issues can be a bad leadership, corruption, different business environment, bribe and so on. The reason why I came up with this examples is because...
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