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 to pay $2.35 million plus legal costs in a June 20 ruling in the copyright infringement lawsuit.

In court documents, GMAC cited a posting by a user who said the information offered on the site was “inestimable,” saying that he saw 10 to 12 “word by word” items and “many of the other questions felt very familiar.”

About 6,000 GMAT scores from when the Web site started in 2003 to the present are in question, GMAC spokeswoman Judy Phair said Wednesday. It’s unclear how many test-takers are involved, because they can take the test several times a year.

“We have an ethical responsibility to schools and students to say this is a secure and fair test,” Phair said. “Obviously, you’re not being fair if you have an unfair advantage.”

The council plans to match data with test-takers and cancel the scores of anyone it determines knowingly used Scoretop to cheat on the GMAT. It will also notify the schools receiving scores, and perhaps prevent them from retaking the test. Phair said she can’t offer a timetable on the process.

Shi wasn’t represented by an attorney, according to court documents. McLean, Va.-based GMAC said Shi has returned to his native China and couldn’t be reached.

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Bhubaneswar: If you thought, education is only the value for children, because parents at home and teachers at school, you are far behind.

In a world of the deterioration of his value system, including B-schools have value education in their fields of study as a major topic. It aims to promote new education, which guarantees the future overall development of management staff.

Management companies and schools worldwide have recognized the importance of business ethics and their usefulness in the treatment of ethical issues, said Dr Bibhu Prasan Patra, Associate Professor, Xavier’s Institute of Management.

XIMB On paper, since its inception in 1987, while most universities are in the subject line recently classifications as Indian philosophy and values and ethics of Corporate Governance. In some institutions, it is social and ethical responsibility.

For the younger generation of business-like relations. It is a dehumanization and the feeling that nothing until the job is done. They are very ambitious and try to short cuts. In this process, they have nothing against their ways and words.

So a certain degree of humanity and compassion for schärfte expected to-be-managers, said Prasanta Kumar Mohanty, Deputy Director, Institute of Management and Information Science (IMIS), Bhubaneswar. Quite rightly, therefore, the topic was at the Institute in 1996.

Without a good value, now director can not exercise. And it is even more important when demand increased transparency in the corporate world, adds Mohanty. It should therefore be trained in the basics of human value, which right and what is wrong, good, bad, only unjust, commitment, responsibility and obligation of virtue and vice, Patra.

In the current context, the economy, more than a venture with the primary objective customer satisfaction and maximizing profits later. ”Every director must keep in mind that a person already developed in collaboration with the Organization, he worked for the award. To this end, he has to understand the value of the company, particularly relations within a company. It is here that education is the declared value,’’says Mohanty.