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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[computerme]

OH THAT IS Commmedddddyyyyy!!!

I love it!

in the words of Kelso:

[Sebastopol]

BURN!!!

Re:Deserved

[damian cosmas]

Presumably, then, you'd also have no problem if the applicants had instead broken into a building to view their not-yet-mailed acceptance letters (and maybe killed a security guard, for good measure).

Re:The articles miss the point

[the_rev_matt]

No offense, but if you're positing the theory of "past performance is predictive of future performance" then you've not learned anything at Harvard.

If it were then I would have to assume that all Harvard MBA's are inept egoists who value sycophants over all else and will gladly drive their company into the ground to 'prove' they are smarter than all the people that work for them and disagree with their plans, based on my experiences during the dotcom days.

However, I'm well aware of the truism that past performance is no guarantee of future results.