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 School of Management, said he wasnt surprised by the results, since MBA students are highly competitive and have a high need for achievement. There is a propensity for those types of behaviour.

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NHEMA Members Approve MBA Merger

National Home Equity Mortgage Association members voted overwhelmingly Friday to approve the organizations merger with the Mortgage Bankers Association, NHEMA general counsel Maury Shevin said today.

NHEMA represents the nonprime mortgage lending industry and has about 225 mortgage lender members. Both NHEMA and MBA say the merger is a natural progression since it will further strengthen the entire mortgage industry.

This partnership is in the industrys best interest and will allow MBA to have one, strong voice, said MBAs chairman Regina Lowry.

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Nike Founder Donates $105 million to GSB

The University announced in August that Phil Knight, MBA 62 and founder and chairman of Nike Inc., will donate $105 million to Stanfords Graduate School of Business (GSB).

Knights gift is thought to be the single largest gift ever given to a business school.

Phil Knight has once again shown the depth of his commitment to Stanfords future, said President John Hennessy. The enormous generosity of this gift will enable the Graduate School of Business to create a truly unique environment for its graduate programs and enrich Stanfords efforts to encourage multidisciplinary teaching and research that transcends traditional boundaries.

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Keeping pace with industry dynamics

Come December, students at the Singapore and Dubai campuses of the S.P. Jain Center of Management will swap classrooms for the next six months.

The B-schools global MBA programme facilitates an arrangement under which students pursuing the one-year course will spend six months at the Singapore campus and six months at the Dubai campus. The course will begin simultaneously at both campuses.

After the commoditisation of MBA programmes, it has become important for B-schools to differentiate themselves. And they have to keep pace with the dynamics of the industry, said Nitish Jain, president of the Center.

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MBA students are the biggest graduate cheats

MBA students are the biggest cheats of all graduate students, with 56 per cent admitting to misdemeanours such as using crib notes in exams, plagiarism and downloading essays from the web.

The statistic comes from a survey of graduate students to be published in the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal. The report is based on data from about 5,300 survey respondents at 54 colleges and universities in the US and Canada, including 623 students in 32 graduate business programmes.

The report will be unpleasant reading to US business schools, many of which are still smarting from the involvement of their alumni in the corporate scandals of recent years: Jeffrey Skilling, former chief executive of Enron, received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979, for example.

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Cal moves into top 5 in national M.B.A. program ranking

The Wall Street Journals ranking of M.B.A. programs placed the University of California, Berkeleys Haas school at No. 5 and Stanford Universitys business school at No. 18 nationally.

The annual ranking results from polls of corporate recruiters rating M.B.A. programs on 21 criteria, including things like students problem-solving skills, the likelihood of finding stars at the schools, content of the schools core curriculum and commitment to corporate responsibility.

Cal moved up from No. 7 in last years ranking and Stanford fell from No. 15.

The University of Michigan ranked No. 1, followed by Dartmouth University, Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University.

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MITs Sloan tops Harvard among recuiters

Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Sloan business school ranked higher than Harvard Universitys business school in a survey published in Wednesdays Wall Street Journal.

The research, conducted by the WSJ and Harris Interactive, examined what recruiters think of the nations top M.B.A programs. The rankings measured how appealing the business schools were to the corporate recruiters who hire their M.B.A. graduates.

MITs Sloan ranked tenth while Harvard was placed at 14.
Recruiters surveyed said Harvards shortcomings include an arrogant culture and graduates excessive salary demands.

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ZymoGenetics Discusses Detailed Results From Successful Phase 3 Trial Evaluating rhThrombin as a Potential Treatment for Surgical Bleeding

ZymoGenetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZGEN - News) today announced detailed results from its pivotal Phase 3 trial of recombinant human Thrombin (rhThrombin) as an aid to controlling bleeding during surgery. The trial compared rhThrombin to bovine thrombin. As announced on September 5th 2006, both the primary and secondary endpoints of the study were met. rhThrombin demonstrated comparable efficacy and a superior immunogenicity profile as compared to bovine thrombin. Both treatments were well tolerated and exhibited similar adverse event profiles in this study.

ZymoGenetics took a big step toward becoming a commercially successful company with these positive results, said Bruce L.A. Carter, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of ZymoGenetics. We believe the thrombin market is underserved and has the potential to expand. Were on track to file a biologics application with the FDA later this year.

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Business students learn the lesson of giving back

The inaugural class of the University of Floridas new South Florida-based master of business administration program worked to make the grade in more ways than one.

Before the students walked away with their diplomas, they made sure to leave something behind for the community they trained in.

If you are just looking out for yourselves, its not going to make a good neighborhood, student Michelle Gold said.

Throughout the year, Gold and her 39 fellow students took part in six charity projects. They were the first graduates of the 24-month Professional MBA program offered at the Hyatt Regency Bonaventure in Weston — and they became the first class to become so interested in charitable projects, making a point to give back.

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America Economia Ranks Babsons MBA Program #20 Among U.S. Business Schools

America Economia magazine has ranked Babson Colleges MBA program #20 among U.S. business schools and
#30 in the world.

America Economia is published in Spanish and Portuguese and has wide circulation in Latin America.

The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College has a rich tradition of excellence in cultivating entrepreneurial thinking. While some of our graduates pursue start-up ventures, far more of our graduates use their entrepreneurial training to succeed in the corporate environment.

Here, entrepreneurship isnt about starting a business, its a state of mind.

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