Harvard Business School: You Peek, You Lose

mosel-saar-ruwer writes "Seems Harvard Business school was using the ApplyYourself web service to process applications. Sometime in the last few days, an anonymous hacker, known as 'brookbond', was able to crack the system, and discovered that Harvard had already posted acceptance letters to the website fully a month before they were to be mailed to their recipients. He posted instructions on how applicants could view their letters at the BusinessWeek forums, and approximately 119 applicants followed his advice. Today, the dean of the Harvard Business School, one Kim Clark, announced that none of the 119 would be admitted: 'This behavior is unethical at best -- a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization... Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted to this school.'"

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RTFA MORON

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

Err... says noone could see anything but their own. Still don't quite trust this answer though. Looks like a setup to me after a second look.

Well

[sulli]

Given that they accepted the likes of George W. Bush, would you want to be accepted?

Re:This cries out for a lawsiut against Harvard!

[BluedemonX]

RE: If a business deal came by where I could make $10 million by duping an old lady out of her $100k house

Then you have NO place in the American business world.

Lay off the employees who sweated to put you where you are so you can cash out as your stupidity burns the house down around you.

Poison the air and water, and then sell air and water filters.

Kill people in a third world nation over oil and claim it's for human rights.

Empty entire towns and cities by closing down factories, so you can exploit third world countries and simultaneously bankrupt the people who you intend to buy your products.

Sell products that you KNOW kill people, that are defective, and baldfacedly lie in the face of staggering amounts of fact. Blame the tire company because you tell people to underinflate their tires to compensate for the fact that you cannot engineer a certain type of vehicle. State that the deaths from your rushed-to-market drug are obviously from something else.

Usurp the democracy and use it to line your pockets.

I'm no commie, but this is exactly like the jailing of Martha Stewart. Ken Lay, by the way, is still walking around scot free. Mind you, Ken Lay is the right color, the right gender, and well connected, and Stewart some upstart woman who dared make more money than the old boys club she hobnobbed with.

And rightly so

[z80kid]

"Any applicant found to have done so will not be admitted to this school."

And rightly so. After all, this is Harvard, not MIT.

These people understand how to submit form data. They might be geeks trying to sneak their way in to the Pointy-Haired Boss's club. These are the future corporate leaders of America, after all

Can you imagine a CEO who can use a mouse? and navigate the "interweb"? Someone like that might even be able to learn what his company does. It could upset the entire system of American capitalism as we know it.