Faculty Insights

School cheating has been a particular concern, as it’s reported at all levels and among students, teachers and administrators. Those involved include such institutions as the Air Force Academy (where cadets were accused of cheating on an online test in April) and Harvard University.

Donald McCabe, a professor of management at Rutgers University-Newark, says the Internet has created new opportunities to blur ethical bounds. “People have redefined what constitutes cheating in line with the technologies available now,” says McCabe, co-author of Cheating in College, published in September.

TRENTON - State business leaders are facing a stark and chilling reality: Hundreds of companies remain perilously close to losing their battle against Hurricane Sandy’s devastation.

This is a critical point in officials’ efforts to resuscitate ailing businesses in the Garden State. They have to rapidly turn the rounded numbers and estimates from the early days of the hurricane’s aftermath into hard figures that will help them cut a clear path to recovery.

Jeffrey Robinson, assistant professor at Rutgers Business School in Newark, has studied data collected from companies after other U.S. disasters.

In academic terms, Robinson said, New Jersey’s survey would need to generate at least 4,000 responses before it could claim represent a signficant cross-section of the estimated 40,000 businesses impacted by the storm.

"The only way to get that is by going door to door, getting people to go out and collect this information," he said. "Anyone can go online to fill out that form right now, for better or for worse."

Though the country is “predominantly a service economy,” Professor Farok J. Contractor of Rutgers Business School writes, “The nation is still the world’s biggest manufacturer,” he adds, with “unrivaled productivity in terms of manufacturing value-added per employee or per hour worked.”