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After weeks of tough talk, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) handed out a relatively small number of punishments for the Scoretop cheating scandal. After extensive careful research, the GMAC canceled the scores of just 84 past test takers, and has announced that most of them are eligible to retake the exam immediately.
For schools that have students or alumni among… (more…)
The Scoretop GMAT cheating scandal has mostly blown over, but now there are reports that similar sites still operate, allowing GMAT test takers to illegally download real GMAT questions.
An article posted to the Time Online last week showed the results of the newspaper’s investigative work: The Times found at least five other sites still selling GMAT questions. And on another site, a… (more…)
A recent BusinessWeek article explored the recent growth of specialized MBA programs, especially as a way for lesser-known schools to stand out from the pack. But are they always a good choice for business school students?
“Not necessarily,” writes Fancesca Levy for BusinessWeek. “While established programs have placement records on par with those of their general MBAs, many… (more…)
Yesterday, the UC Regents approved the appointment of Richard K. Lyons to the position of Dean at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Prior to his appointment, Lyons served as a professor at the school and as the chief learning officer of Goldman Sachs, New York. As the chief learning officer, he directed the group in charge of developing leadership in Goldman Sach’s managing directors… (more…)