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The cheating episode at Duke University may cause academics to conclude the post-Enron emphasis on teaching ethics in graduate business schools is a failure.
Thirty-four first-year masters of business administration students at Dukes Fuqua School of Business were disciplined in the programs largest cheating scandal. Nine students face expulsion for collaborating on a take-home test, violating the professors rules.
Business students are more likely to cut corners than those in any other academic discipline, several studies show. A Rutgers University survey last year found that cheating at business schools is common, even after ethics courses were added following scandals that bankrupted Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc.
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Duke University's Fuqua School of Business joined last year with Frankfurt University's Goethe Business School to offer an executive M.B.A. program that gives students an M.B.A. from both Duke and Goethe. The 22-month program takes place mainly in Frankfurt, with two weeks' instruction at the Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina. Tuition costs €48,000 euros ($61,000), and the vast majority of students are sponsored by their companies. Classes are taught in English, primarily by Duke faculty.
Duke started a Frankfurt campus in 1999 but closed it in 2002 amid lackluster enrollments. After that experience, Duke decided instead to emphasize partnerships ...
he recent cheating scandal involving students in Duke Universitys MBA program should serve as a clarion call for colleges and universities to wake up, smell the coffee and start emulating the ethics policies of the private sector, according to at least one expert who closely follows ethics-related issues.
Yet, another ethics expert says the universitys response should serve as an example to colleges and corporations alike -- in that the institution publicized the infractions and its response to them, thereby reminding everyone that it takes violations of its honor code seriously.
Both agree, however, that the episode illustrates the tendency
Susan Deborah Duke, an associate with the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, was married in Princeton, N.J., yesterday to Daniel A. Biederman, executive director of the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation in New York. Cantor Raymond Smolover performed the ceremony in the garden of Prospect House at Princeton University.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Duke of Los Angeles, was graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from the Law School of the University of Chicago. Her father is president of Duke
Broadwick CEO Ryan Allis to speak at Duke MBA Marketing Symposium - Aug 30
Broadwick Corp. CEO Ryan P. Allis will be speaking at the Duke MBA Marketing Symposium on Wednesday, August 30 at the Duke campus in Durham, NC. The forum is designed to give Duke Fuqua MBA students a unique opportunity to learn about and explore a diverse set of companies and careers in the field of marketing.
The symposium will include representatives from Heinz, Frito Lay, Pepsi, Unilever, Burts Bees, Procter & Gamble, Merck, Eli Lilly, Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Express, Octagon Sports, CMGP, McKinsey, IBM and
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is once again offering help to businesses in the Triangle who are seeking consulting services.
MBA students are available to work with firms that can’t afford to pay consulting fees. Students will receive course credit for their efforts.
Fuqua students have worked with more than 300 companies over the 25 years of the program.
To be eligible for the program, businesses must meet certain criteria:
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The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, have launched an executive education initiative called 'Global Leaders Programme: Growing and Innovating in a Flat World'. This programme will run in India between August 20 and 27, and in the USA between September 17 and 24.
The Global Leaders Program me (GLP) is framed with the aim to combine IIM-A's expertise in the socio-economic reality of the fast-growing Asian region with the leadership of Duke with its insights into the developed markets. The programme offers a comprehensive global business perspective for executives leading global organisations
Business unethics
he public should pay close attention to the frenzied debate in Americas graduate business schools over the teaching or lack thereof of managerial ethics.
This topic has dominated writings in the leading administrative science journals for the past five years. Simply put, many business school professors now acknowledge that a cause-and-effect relationship exists between contemporary business school education (with its emphasis on profit maximization) and the recent spate of corporate scandals. They point to the late Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling of Enron infamy, both holders of the masters of business administration degree, to illustrate how the teaching
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala, the Cabinet decided Friday, John Mathai appointed to the post of Chief Secretary Muhammed Riasuddin after relocation of the Post Office.
Riasuddin was issued as the director of the Institute of Management in Government, while others Chief Secretary John Mathai will be the new Chief Secretary, Chief VS Achuthanandan said to journalists after a meeting of cabinet.
Accordingly, the former Deputy Rajendra Babu senior judges were appointed, as well as the Judicial Commission of the probe at the last "Verwahr and police deaths," he added.
Regarding the conditions and modalities of the probe, he said the death occurred between 1 and
How Duke Helps Students Connect
Sheryle Dirks of the Fuqua School's Career Management Center talks about her efforts to customize the recruiting process
In 2005, about 85% of graduates at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University had job offers by May, and 92% had job offers by August. This year, the school rolled out a new Intranet system to help students manage their on-campus recruiting process. That was a priority of Sheryle Dirks, the director of the school's Career Management Center (CMC), who says she wants to focus on customizing services for students. With the new Intranet, MBA
Can business schools drill ethics into students' heads
Eager to supply companies with leaders who clearly know right from wrong, business schools are investing heavily in courses and centres where ethics are debated day and night.
But according to experts in executive behaviour, all that time, talent, and treasure spent on ethics education is unlikely to change the way top managers behave in the workplace.
Touching off this debate among consultants and academics are survey results published by the Journal of Business Ethics earlier this year. A team of five researchers investigated programmes at 50 top-ranked master of business administration (MBA)
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