Media Coverage: September 2006

The Boston Herald, 09/30/2006—Editorial on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Candidates for the MBA degree lead all other graduate students in admitted academic cheating." (Bottom Line Minds Are Starting Early).

Reuters, 09/29/2006—Timothy Pollock, associate professor of management, comments on the energy IPO market. "When oil becomes more affordable, people stop screaming about the need for alternative energy," Pollock said. (Energy IPOs Left Out In Cold).

MarketWatch.com, 09/29/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "More has to be done to enforce ethical codes well before the bad act occurs. By then it is too late. Teaching graduate students that ethics matters in business should be a matter of course, not a direction to avoid." (M.B.A.s: The Biggest Cheaters).

The Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/29/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "If business schools stress the importance of integrity from the time they recruit students until the time they graduate them, students' understanding of how they are expected to behave will change, the authors say." (Notebook).

The Washington Post, 09/27/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "This may explain a lot: Not only do cheaters apparently prosper, they get graduate degrees in business." (Captains Of Industry, Masters Of Cheating).

Reuters, 09/26/2006—Timothy Pollock, associate professor of management, comments on the IPO market. "Ever since the bubble burst, the markets haven't been what they once were," Pollock said. "There have been little pockets of activity, but overall it's a lot more tame." (Cool IPO Market Chills Venture Capital Returns).

Bloomberg News, 09/26/2006—Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, comments on the boards of directors firing CEOs. "Boards are under a lot more pressure, and they're being hypervigilant," Hambrick said. "They are cleansing." (Ousted CEOs At Viacom, Kraft Help Set Record For Departures). This article also appeared in about 10 newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune and Baltimore Sun.

Bloomberg News, 09/26/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "According to a survey released this month, students are increasingly cheating during their courses. And which class is most likely to be trying to fiddle the system? You guessed it: the business-studies mob." (Business Can't Get Rid of Liars, Cheats). This article also appeared in September in the Vancouver Province, Singapore's Today, and South Africa's Business Report.

The Daily Collegian, 09/26/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "There is something different, it's much more competitive and that can lead to more people cheating," Treviño said. (Cheating On The Rise). This article and others like it appeared in dozens of college newspapers.

BusinessWeek.com, 09/25/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "This semester, Penn State, led by Trevino, is creating an Honor Committee of students and faculty to help build academic integrity." (A Crooked Path Through B-School?).

Economist.com, 09/25/2006—News brief on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Serious efforts to monitor and enforce academic honesty would ensure that students don't have an opportunity to cheat, and reassure them that their classmates don't either." (Lacking Integrity).

Bloomberg News, 09/25/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "The study found 56 percent of MBA students acknowledged cheating, compared with 54 percent in engineering, 48 percent in education and 45 percent in law school." (MBA Students Cheat More Than Other Grad Students, Study Finds). A version of this appeared in several other newspapers, including The Chicago Sun-Times, The Rocky Mountain News, The New York Sun, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Calgary Herald, 09/25/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "The study, by professors from Rutgers, Washington State and Penn State universities, surveyed more than 5,000 students from 11 Canadian schools and 21 in the U.S. from 2002-04." (Alberta College Cheats Get High-Tech Boost).

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 09/25/2006—News brief on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics.

The Daily Express (U.K.), 09/23/2006—News brief on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics.

Nightly Business Report (PBS), 09/22/2006—Anchor mentions academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "And finally tonight, this doesn't bode well for the next generation of American business leaders. A new survey of graduate students in business programs shows they are more likely to cheat on their work than grad students in other fields."

Reuters, 09/22/2006—Article features research on celebrity CEOs by Timothy Pollock, associate professor of management. "'Throwing money at the stars isn't necessarily the best avenue to guarantee success,' said Timothy Pollock, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and a co-author of the study which looked at scores of the most highly regarded CEOs in the United States." (Star CEOs May Not Be Worth Their Pay).

Investor's Business Daily, 09/22/2006—News brief on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics.

Toronto Star, 09/22/2006—Letter to the editor in response to academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "While MBA students may cheat because of their emphasis on 'getting the job done,' I believe the majority of students do not focus nearly enough attention on their learning experiences." (High Marks Seen As Golden Ticket).

Financial Express (India), 09/22/2006—Article features research by Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management. "Just as I suspected! The Economist in August reported Penn State profs Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick's research on the narcissistic manager." (Narcissism And Acquisitions).

Financial Times, 09/21/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "MBA students are the biggest cheats of all graduate students, with 56 percent admitting to misdemeanours such as using crib notes in exams, plagiarism and downloading essays from the Internet." (MBA Students 'Cheat The Most'). This article also appeared in the Irish Times and Financial Times Deutschland.

The Philadelphia Daily News, 09/21/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Page One of the Inquirer reported a study that among U.S. and Canadian graduate students, candidates for business degrees are the biggest cheats." (Would Will Rogers Be Depressed?).

Reuters, 09/20/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on Wednesday." (Business Grad Students Most Likely To Cheat). This article also appeared in The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer.

Toronto Star, 09/20/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "MBA students in Canada and the United States are more likely to cheat than students in other disciplines because they believe it is how the business world operates — and because they believe their peers cheat, according to a new study." (MBA Students Likelier To Cheat). This article also appeared in at least seven other news outlets, including the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Hamilton Spectator, and Edmonton Sun.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 09/19/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Penn State is trying out a business school honors code this year as part of its attempt to foster a 'community of honor and trust,' Trevino said. 'We're really trying to do a culture change and embed this.'" (Survey: M.B.A. Students More Likely To Cheat). This article also appeared in more than a dozen other newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Salt Lake Tribune, and Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online, 09/19/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Ms. Treviño added in an interview that among M.B.A. students, "there's also a perception that their peers cheat more in a business-school environment and that they'll be disadvantaged if they don't." (Survey Finds Widespread Cheating In M.B.A. Programs).

KYW1060.com, 09/19/2006—Article on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "In the study, researchers from Penn State, Rutgers, and Washington State outlined a variety of cheating techniques and found that the biggest reason students cheated was because they believed others were doing it." (Research: More Than Half Of MBA Students Cheat In School). This story also ran on KYW-AM in Philadelphia.

Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, 09/19/2006—News brief on academic integrity research by Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics. "Fifty-six percent of business students surveyed admitted to cheating at least once during the last academic year, compared to 47 percent of graduate students in non-business programs, according to a report set for publication in the Academy of Management Learning & Education." (News Roundup: MBA Students Likely To Cheat).

The San Diego Union-Tribune, 09/17/2006—J. Edward Ketz, associate professor of accounting, comments on the financial reporting of a San Diego company. "The thing that I don't understand is that, why wouldn't these managers be smart enough to realize that when you get into a cycle of stuffing channels and inflating inventory, the fraud just gets deeper and deeper because you constantly have to beat your previous numbers," Ketz said. "You wind up having this thing that almost ensures that they are going to get caught." (Scrambling To Recover).

The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News, 09/16/2006—Fred Hurvitz, instructor of marketing, comments on the trend of retailers selling holiday merchandise earlier each year. "It has been estimated that this year's holiday shopping will account for about $450 billion. If you take 21 percent of that, that's about $90 billion," Hurvitz said. "You can see why retailers want to jump in now and really capture some of that spending." (To Retailers, It's Beginning To Look A Bit Like Christmas)

BusinessWeek.com, 09/16/2006—Article mentions the Institute for the Study of Business Markets. "Last week, I brought my message about growth and innovation in the services economy to the Institute for the Study of Business Markets—a premier B-to-B think tank based out of Penn State. Being one of the primary gathering places for B-to-B marketers, many old-line companies that make paint, lumber, chemicals, steel, paper, and industrial tools and components were represented." (The ABCs Of Modern B-To-B).

The Wall Street Journal, 09/15/2006—J. Edward Ketz, associate professor of accounting, comments on fair-value accounting. "The bottom line is that fair-value accounting is a great thing so long as you have market values," said Ketz. "If you don't, you get into some messy areas." (FASB To Issue Retooled Rule For Valuing Corporate Assets).

The (Montreal) Gazette, 09/12/2006—Kenneth Lusht, Zimmerman Homes University Endowed Fellow in Business Administration, comments on people's perceptions of property tax assessments. "Everyone is always in the longest line. Everybody's always in the lane where the traffic moves slowest. And everybody thinks they're getting screwed on their assessment. That's kind of the nature of it," Lusht said. (Making A Case For Annual Assessments).

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 09/10/2006—Article features research by Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management. "Some social scientists have long suspected a link between narcissism and entrepreneurial success. Think Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner and the Donald. Well, think again, say Arijit Chatterjee and Donald C. Hambrick of Penn State University's business school." (Narcissism Doesn't Breed More Success). This article, which was originally appeared in August in The Washington Post, also appeared in September in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette and the (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier.

MSNBC.com, 09/06/2006—Article features research by Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management. "'It used to be that CEOs weren't asked to do extreme things,' says Don Hambrick, who along with Arijit Chatterjee, both professors at Penn State University, developed a test to determine whether a CEO is narcissistic and to what degree. 'They changed the rules so as to encourage more extremism, more flamboyance, go-for-broke types.'" (How To Identify And Manage A Narcissistic CEO). This article originally appeared in August on Forbes.com.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 09/04/2006—Article about a $3.5 million fraternity house renovation mentions that most of the residents of the house are Smeal students. (Beta Theta Pi Frat House At Penn State Gets Makeover). This article originally appeared in August in the Centre Daily Times.

Centre Daily Times, 09/03/2006—Andrew Bergstein, instructor of marketing, writes about his memories of Penn State Football games. (PSU, Notre Dame Rivalry Showcases Two Teams To Love).

The Baltimore Sun, 09/01/2006—Gary Gray, visiting professor of finance, comments on reverse stock splits. "Often it's just window dressing, and it's just to get share prices more in the area or the level at which companies want it to trade," Gray said. (Ciena Loss Narrows As Sales Soar 38% In 3Q).

BizEd, September/October 2006—Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics, writes on business school honor codes. "Some business schools are adding courses designed to instill ethics in their students, but a complementary way to reinforce learning about behavioral standards would be to institute an honor code. Honor codes allow students to learn ethical behavior by living it every day." (The Honorable Student).

DC Velocity, September 2006—Article mentions recent accolades for the Center for Supply Chain Research. "It's been a good year for the Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. In February, a team of its MBA students took first place in a prestigious supply chain case study competition—the Annual FedEx Freight International Graduate Logistics Case Competition—for the third time in four years. Then, in August, directors of the International Society of Logistics (SOLE) named the Center for Supply Chain Research the 2006 institutional recipient of the Eccles Medal." (Smeal's Winning Streak Remains Intact).

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