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Last month the media provided extensive coverage of a report that 34 first-year MBA students at Duke University were being expelled or otherwise punished for collaborating on a take-home exam. Some have questioned whether the faculty involved in administering this exam took adequate precautions to discourage such collaboration while the attitude of others has been what would you expect from students in a high-profile, competitive MBA program. A few people have even suggested that what these students did is no big deal.
Whatever your view, research suggests that business students are more willing to engage in academic dishonesty than other students. In a study released at Rutgers last fall, MBA students on 32 campuses self-reported more cheating than any other major with 56 percent of graduate business students acknowledging cheating compared with an average of 47 percent for all graduate students – including law, education, health professions, social sciences and humanities. Seventy-four percent of business undergraduates surveyed at the same 32 schools reported one or more incidents of cheating compared with an overall mean of 68 percent. For 17 years now, undergraduate business students have reported higher levels of cheating in this Rutgers project.
Some of the most significant differences between business students and other students relate to collaborative behaviors such as those encountered at Duke. Many business students justify such behavior by noting corporations value individuals who are effective team players, arguing that they are simply acquiring a skill that will make them more attractive to corporations in a competitive job market. Many feel such increased competition for jobs (hence grades) and the advent of the Internet have led to significant increases in cheating.
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