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Academic Fraud: Bought Solutions for Case Studies

Ok! What's going on? Fraud?

We humans are a problem solving species with genetically
coded desire to progress through resolving challenges.

However, for some e.g. student plagiarists, a quick fix for

academic problems i.e.

assessment/coursework/examinations, is recourse to the
web for solutions that shortcut both effort and grading.

It recently came to our attention that a website,
‘caseforest.com’, was offering paid case study solutions, an

interesting academic development and certainly one that

required some examination. This is not the only website

offering this service but it is one that we thought we could
beta test.

In particular university students are resorting more and

more to contract cheating by accessing websites that offer
to produce cheap and not-so-cheap “paid for” course

assignments for them.

Paper Mills

We produce business case studies, from our own research,
for use on our courses with fully developed case solutions,

or more appropriately, teaching guides. These cases are

used within the university, submitted to competition e.g.

The European Foundation for Management Development

(efmd) case writing competition and then submitted to The