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MBA students likelier to cheat MBA students in Canada and the United States are more likely to cheat than students in other disciplines because they believe it is how the business world operates — and because they believe their peers cheat, according to a new study. The study found that 56 per cent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the last year, compared with 47 per cent of non-business students. More than 5,000 MBA students from 11 graduate business schools in Canada and 21 schools in the U.S. took part. Jim Fisher, vice-dean of MBA programs at University of Torontos Rotman

Senior executives give MBA courses mixed review U.S. executives are generally positive about the way business schools prepare MBA graduates for the real world, according to a new survey -- but the approval is some way short of a grade A. Overall, 69% of business executives felt MBA courses did a good job educating students to succeed in corporate life, said the study carried out for Graziadio School of Business and Management, part of Pepperdine University in Los Angeles. However, only 7% rated the business schools job as excellent, and 21% marked them down as only fair. More: edition.cnn.com

Survey finds MBA students most likely to cheat When it comes to cheating in graduate school, a new study finds that MBA students are the champs. A survey of 5,331 students at 32 graduate schools in the United States and Canada found an alarming amount of cheating across disciplines, but more among the nations future business leaders. 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. The students, who were surveyed between 2002 and 2004, told researchers from Pennsylvania State,

Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out. The exam's publisher, the Graduate Management Admission Council, is tracking down users of Scoretop.com after winning a lawsuit to shut down the site and seize a computer hard drive containing payment information and user identifications. Scoretop sold VIP access for $30 a month, giving users previews to current questions on the latest Graduate Management Admission Test. Some were posted by users after taking the exam. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema also ordered site operator Lei Shi

Aaron F. Cooper II, a self-described worrywart, never thought his penchant for devising foolproof backup plans could translate into a calling. But that all changed when he signed up for an elective in risk management while at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business executive MBA program last fall. "It entails pretty much everything I've always been interested in my entire life, even before I knew risk management existed," said Cooper, 27, a telecommunications engineer at AT&T (T). Cooper is part of a new wave of students hitting business school campuses. For years, risk management—the process of analyzing exposure to

Giving in to pressure from academia and corporate guide, the Indian government has granted permission on the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore to open a new campus in Singapore. The research activities and management Education Center's only IIMB campus of Southeast Asia. If IIMB sought permission to open the facility in Singapore in November last year, officials of Human Resources Development Ministry said IIM law does not allow open offices overseas. Officer employee beyond the need to meet the needs at home. The conflict ended on Feb. 1, according to HRD and Minister Arjun Singh IIM directors met to consider changes,

IILM Part-Time Programs for Working Executives Two Year Part-Time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM-EVE 2002-04) One Year Part-Time Post Graduates Diploma in Insurance & Risk Management (PGDIRM-EVE-2002-03) Academic Session Commences : September 23, 2002 Please write to : The Director IILM : Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003 Source : Hindustan Times (New Delhi)

HYDERABAD: The Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India (ICFAI) University on Thursday announced the launch of two part-time courses - a 27-month Chartered Financial Analyst program and a three-year MBA program. These programs, which is supported by the full-time faculty of the University of ICFAI, after 6 clock and is the same curriculum as the full-time courses. A provision for an internship was also in the structures and, of course, certain changes to the benefit of working time executives, professionals and entrepreneurs in the content, ICFAI Dean Prof. CVA Prasada Rao, said addressing a press conference. This is the first time that

If students cheat, before merit further examination, an Institute of marks, MCES's College of Education and Research in Mumbra reportedly spent with gusto. Instead, the college, which takes place in a full-time one-year study Bachelor of Education (beds) flunked of course, the test and said that the authorization to suspend for the academic year 1999-2000. The penalty was proposed to require students to cheat on the criteria set by the University of Mumbai for its BEd, of course. Under the guise of "work" looks forward to all students in the cleanliness of the premises a day before an inspection, so that

IIMBs progress towards being an international B-school has been recognized through its inclusion in the Wall Street Journals list of top 100 business schools World Wide – the only B-school from India to be included in the list. IIMB has produced extremely successful leaders managing various businesses across Asia, USA and Europe. For the first time in the history of India, Indian Institute of Management will be opening a campus outside India, in the form of a Research and Management Education Center in Singapore. The Singapore campus will be IIMBs only campus in South East Asia. This will be the 3rd

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