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[prytania3]

From an article on Yahoo Finance:

Careers
M.B.A.s: The Biggest Cheaters
MarketWatch
By Thomas Kostigen

Graduate business students take their cue from corporate scandals

The corporate scandals that have plagued Wall Street in recent history are setting a fine example for young students looking to make their mark in the business world: They are learning to cheat with the best of them.

Students seeking their masters of business administration degree admit cheating more than any other type of student, from law to liberal arts.

http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/mbacheat_1.html

[philoctetes]

This does not surprise me at all. My colleague in the business school just got a paper from a business PhD student with no citations, and over half the paper (poorly) paraphrased from the references he did list in the bibliography. The student claimed ignorance, and said something along the lines of, "that was how we wrote papers in my MBA."

The massive expansion of MBA programmes must be in part to blame. If the student understand that the business schools see them as nothing more than a revenue stream, how can they expect the students to see their degree as anything more than a commodity to be purchased?

[gringo_gus]

 There is a deference to managerialism, and these executives to be which is about more than the revenue stream...

In fact, I am going to start a new thread on this - look out for the one called "The distortions of the MBA in the academy".

[tamiam]

Hey, hey....


Gringo Gus, what the heck are you trying to say.

At least MBAs (hopefully) learn how to write clearly and present their thoughts succinctly. Bullet points can be helpful for that.

[gringo_gus]

Sorry, you're right, my previous posting is really unclear, I apologize. What I was trying to do was

* differ from the previous poster's argument that it was the MBA program's position as source of revenue that privileged its students

* argue instead that it was its very status as a business program, and an institutional deference to future managerial, blue-chip "stars",  which facilitated a bypass of normal practice elsewhere in the academy.

You're right to pick me up on this one tamiam. I hope I have been clearer this time round.

[oldadjunct]

Sorry, you're right, my previous posting is really unclear, I apologize. What I was trying to do was

* differ from the previous poster's argument that it was the MBA program's position as source of revenue that privileged its students

* argue instead that it was its very status as a business program, and an institutional deference to future managerial, blue-chip "stars",  which facilitated a bypass of normal practice elsewhere in the academy.

You're right to pick me up on this one tamiam. I hope I have been clearer this time round.

Brilliant parody of meaningless jargon and convolution.  I love it!  Thanks  for the laugh, gus.

[gringo_gus]

OK, so I'm useless. But nothing to say about MBAs cheating? Or maybe you are saying a lot....