West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)

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Case

Reference no. 9-481-117

Subject category: Ethics and Social Responsibility

Authors: Leonard Schlesinger (Harvard Business School); Lou Zambello (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 1981

Version: 8 February 1983

Length: 31 pages

Data source: Published sources

Topics: Action planning; Ethics; Group dynamics; Research and development (R&D); Organizational behavior; Organizational change

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Abstract

Presents a review of published data on the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. Written from the perspective of the Academy Superintendent, it raises issues of ethics, organizational change and action planning in the face of conflicting stakeholder interests.

Location:

New York

Industries:

Educational services; Higher education; Public administration

Other setting(s):

1976