You have never cheated before but you realize that everyone in your class is cheating except for you. You are about to fail the class, even though you know the material really well. Since everyone else is cheating they have caused your grade to go down due to the curve. You will fail the class if you do not cheat like everyone else. What do you do?

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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Ethics at school and tagged , .

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T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University

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