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...HBS Rejects Snooping Hopefuls” (News...
...HBS has used the dubious reasoning that these applicants should have known better as grounds for calling their behavior, according to HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, “unethical at best,” when it was in fact an innocuous lapse in judgment at worst. In total, over a short 9-hour time window, 119 applicants did the surreptitious deed. We can hardly imagine that many more students came across the instructions and resisted their obvious temptation, and we don’t believe their decision makes them any more qualified for business school if they...
...issued a blanket rejection of all applicants who accessed the unpublished decisions website—leaves no room for the possibility that the individuals accessing the decisions page were not the applicants themselves. Clark has stated that applicants should be responsible for their passwords, implying that HBS would not consider cases in which curious spouses, siblings, or other people accessed decision websites. Stanford Graduate School of Business’s policy of dealing with applicants on a case-by-case basis is more reasonable and flexible...
Ultimately, if HBS is looking for a place to lay blame, it should look no further than ApplyYourself, whose security measures to keep applicants from the decisions website were the true culprits. ApplyYourself Chief Executive Leonard A. Metheny Jr. has stated that ApplyYourself is exploring taking legal action against individuals for using “a procedure that was not intended to be used.” Good luck. Metheny should instead dedicate his company’s resources towards making sure further failings do not compromise its clients’ security and privacy...
...sure, HBS has scored a media victory with its hardline stance. Americans have been looking for a sign from the business community, particularly its leading educational institutions, that business ethics are a priority. HBS’s false bravado has given them one, leaving 119 victims in its angry hands...