Harvard Business School: You Peek, You Lose 802
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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.'"
Disaster Averted, US Business Community Saved (Score:5, Funny)
God knows that this sort of unethical behavior [motherjones.com] and borderline illegal practice [cnn.com] is totally out of place in our business community. Obviously, these punks are only getting what they deserve [marthastewart.com].
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.
Good, my plan worked, I've removed the competition (Score:5, Funny)
* evil laugh *
oh wait, business school. shit.
Re:What about those who just went in and looked... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ouch (Score:5, Funny)
Test Prep Classes: $10,000
Donations to School by Parents: $5,000
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.
Law school? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hacker? Not. (Score:2, Funny)
''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!
What would Donald trump have done? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about those who just went in and looked... (Score:3, Funny)
It defies human logic. (Score:2, Funny)
Prospect business students rebuked for unethical behaviour? It simply defies human logic. They're studying how to be business men, are they not?
Re:Disaster Averted, US Business Community Saved (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Disaster Averted, US Business Community Saved (Score:5, Funny)
Low level physics - course #1 (Score:3, Funny)
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?
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Dan East
Re:Instructions? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Deserved (Score:3, Funny)
[meanwhile, downloading another gig of mp3s...]
Re:What would Donald trump have done? (Score:1, Funny)
Then he would've called the 119 applicants into a basement room in Trump Towers that had been done up like a "boardroom" and pitted them against each other while he sat back and fantasized about his beautiful wife.
Well, that's what I would've done, anyway. Especially that last bit.
In an alternate reality. (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Deserved (Score:3, Funny)
But at least they should make it consistent as Harvard has graduated people who are both unethical and stupid [whitehouse.gov].
ps: Continue the meme! Link to Bush's bio with "unethical and stupid".
Violated the First Rule of Business Ethics (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Deserved (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Deserved (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Deserved (Score:3, Funny)
Jesus - Willy Wonka is running the Harvard Business School. No wonder the US economy is screwed.
P.