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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.'"
God knows that this sort of unethical behavior and borderline illegal practice is totally out of place in our business community. Obviously, these punks are only getting what they deserve.
Aside from that, hopefully those involved will learn a valuable life lesson from this: If you can't play by the rules, you'd better be able to run fast and catch, throw or hit a ball really well.
PS: I wonder if any prospective students were smart enough to just look at the admission status of the *other* students... Now that would be showing the sort of sense you'd need to get to the top of corporate America.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
and now I will get into Harvard Business School myself!
* evil laugh *
oh wait, business school. shit.
Those who just looked in but weren't applying didn't get accepted either.
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Blowing your future because you can't wait a month: Priceless.
There are some levels of satisfaction that money can't buy, like watching 100+ snot-nosed future pointy hairs take it up the pooper from Harvard.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Don't worry. For the ethically challenged Harvard Law school is a good alternative.
''Once we learned about it, within literally 2½ hours, we had made appropriate adjustments to the system. . . . We still remain confident that it's a secure system."
Gotta love that ass-covering quote, too, from ApplyYourself. A secure system? Well, maybe marginally more secure, but how?
We moved the files from HBS to the NotReallyTheHBS directory, noone will ever figure that out!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Would he have said "your fired" or "your hired" for this display of ingenuity?
Are you serious?! That's totally unfair.
Prospect business students rebuked for unethical behaviour? It simply defies human logic. They're studying how to be business men, are they not?
HAD
Actually this is part of the entry class of low level physics titled: you can't observe stuff without affecting it.
By looking inside the box, they changed the content!
And with regard to exclusion, they could have at least given them a second chance, maybe with some punishment (like a work camp or something, and select only the 30 first). I thought that this was the land of the second chance.
School is about education. What did they learn? That they got screwed up after doing something that affected noone else?
Am I the only one to think like that?
Sneak teach kids Algebra using a game
the other 4881 applicants are suing Harvard for posting personal, confidential information on the internet for all to see.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
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yeah, i can't believe these students would have the audacity to do such a thing. they got what they deserved indeed.
[meanwhile, downloading another gig of mp3s...]
If this were a cheesy college-spoof movie, the 119 "cheaters" would be recruited to the goofball school for their display of initiative.
Kobayashi Maru indeed.
-- Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW 301/249-6501 AIM:OgGreeb Digital Marketing Inc., Bowie, MD
So that leaves being rejected from Harvard for being either A. Unethical or B. Stupid. Either way, it works for me.
;-)
But at least they should make it consistent as Harvard has graduated people who are both unethical and stupid.
ps: Continue the meme! Link to Bush's bio with "unethical and stupid".
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
"Don't get caught."
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
He simply meant compromising treats are 119 security they weak times. Sorry for trying the first sentence possibly understand to say.
You and the moderator must be from Yale.
No man's an island, unless he's had too much to drink and wets the bed.
Jesus - Willy Wonka is running the Harvard Business School. No wonder the US economy is screwed.
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