MBA breeding ground for future white collar criminals

[AKUMATOTENSHI]

It is just an ego boost.

Akuma

 

[late apex]

"A study released by the center in September and conducted by Rutgers professor Donald McCabe in New Brunswick, New Jersey, showed that students pursuing MBA degrees cheat more than other U.S. graduate students. McCabe found that 56 percent of those in business schools acknowledge violating the rules, compared with 54 percent in engineering, 48 percent in education and 45 percent in law.
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McCabe's survey of 21,500 undergraduates found 74 percent of business majors reported cheating, compared with 73 percent of engineering students and 71 percent of those studying science. The average was 68 percent."
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How to lie with statistics, cont'd: "cheat more", huh? A no less plausible conclusion is that all students cheat at pretty much the same rates, but business dudes and dudettes are healthily less in denial and more honest about self-reporting the truth. They have no problem ratting themselves out for some lame anonymous survey.

 

[Banjo]

Life lesson 101: Inverse ratios.

Ethics applied to any given situation diminish as potential for wealth increases. You guys get any of those Dow Jones calls?

 

[Wayne Gibbous]

Quote from tommymoose:

I can't speak for an MBA , but undergrad in business has to be the biggest joke in the world. All year, the only people I see at the library studying are health sciences majors and engineering majors (my major). Finals week rolls around and you start to see the business majors show up... and most of them browse facebook and just talk for a couple hours and leave (The stuff they do have to study is easy as hell anyway). I've sat in on a couple classes before and as you look around, theres a bunch of kids always screwing around playing flash games... For many kids, it just seems like the major to pick when they dont know what to major in (and therefore aren't very motivated)... my peeved 2 cents

Yep.

I took a business elective to take a break from ball busting EE classes, and the girls that were in there - hot!

Most girls in engineering, if you actually had one in any of your classes, were kinda ugh-lee...

 

[syswizard]

CNBC had a great 4-way discussion last night on this topic hosted by Melissa Francis. Charley Gasparino was the best.....he said: "You can't teach ethics to adults....it's in their upbringing".
He was right of course.
The prof from Princeton said he shows the handcuff-and-jail videos of Koslowski and Skilling and others from Enron infamy to his business students. I thought that was great !

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from Banjo:

Life lesson 101: Inverse ratios.

Ethics applied to any given situation diminish as potential for wealth increases. You guys get any of those Dow Jones calls?

somebody did..and made a hefty 4000%

cheating has been around since the sun starting shining...we used to have the pager scam in UF until it got busted...

 

[Hydroblunt]

Quote from Wayne Gibbous:

I took a business elective to take a break from ball busting EE classes, and the girls that were in there - hot!

Wow if you think girls in business classes are hot, you probably would have been jizzing your pants if you took communications or psychology.

Business majors, except marketing, are not known for hot women. Particularly in the financial field, the male:female ratio is not a favorable one.

 

[Persdawg]

If you aren't cheating, you aren't trying!

 

[hellrider]

bush has an mba.
need i say more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chagi]

Quote from Hydroblunt:

Wow if you think girls in business classes are hot, you probably would have been jizzing your pants if you took communications or psychology.

Business majors, except marketing, are not known for hot women. Particularly in the financial field, the male:female ratio is not a favorable one.

Exactly - the good looking women became fewer and fewer as I hit the later years of my degree. One more class to go this Spring, and then I'm done!