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Richard Florida is the pop economist people love to lionizeor hate. Three years ago, the George Mason University professor (then at Carnegie Mellon) wrote a book christening the creative class: an expansive group of architects, engineers, musicians, nurses and even lawyers who drive economic growth in today's knowledge economy. Attract those workers, and companies will follow, argued Florida. Some cities, like Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio, took the theory to heart. In other circles, Florida was written off as a quack. (Consider the subtext: tax breaks to lure business are pass?...
Along with HBS, the business schools at Carnegie Mellon, Duke, and MIT will reject such applicants...
...Dean Kim B. Clark was emphatic in saying the applicants’ actions had been “unethical at best—a serious breach of trust that cannot be countered by rationalization,” flatly denying admission to the 119. Although Carnegie Mellon and MIT Sloan also rejected those who checked their decisions early, other schools did not act so rashly. Stanford, for example, is reevaluating each applicant in question, giving them a chance to explain themselves...
Last Wednesday, an anonymous individual posted instructions on Business Week Online’s technology forum explaining how applicants to several top graduate schools—including the business schools at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, and MIT—could view the status of their admissions applications early...
Mike Laffin, a spokesman for the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, said that applicants to the school who checked their admission status early would be rejected...