The Conference Board of Canada plagiarism and undue influence story – which with the Board’s report and overdue apology to Curtis Cook will now go on hiatus until new reports are issued in the fall – has obviously attracted considerable interest. Looking back, while plagiarism is rare, it is the […]
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Conference Board Apologies To Curtis Cook
The Conference Board story generates mainstream media coverage yet again today, but missing from those stories was a private apology (scroll to comments) from CEO Anne Golden to Curtis Cook, who was wrongly listed as an author of the plagiarized report.
Conference Board of Canada Issues Statement on IP Reports
The Conference Board of Canada has just issued its statement into the three IP reports that it recalled last month after acknowledging concerns involving plagiarism. The statement admits just about all the allegations that were raised on my blog and in the media: Plagiarism did occur, and it wasn’t detected […]
Conference Board of Canada Issues Statement on IP Reports
The Conference Board of Canada has just issued its statement into the three IP reports that it recalled last month after acknowledging concerns involving plagiarism. The statement admits just about all the allegations that were raised on my blog and in the media: Plagiarism did occur, and it wasn’t detected […]
Trouble With the Board
The Ottawa Citizen ran a lead, masthead editorial over the weekend on the Conference Board of Canada plagiarism story. The paper notes that "these have been difficult days for the Conference Board" and points out: It is to president Anne Golden's credit that the board did recall the reports. But […]
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