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business
The Haas Business School regarded as one of the top 10 business schools in the nation ran into some trouble regarding amount of money paid to faculty members. The Wall Street Journal shocked the nation by publishing their article titled “Audit Finds Financial Irregularities at UC Berkeley Business School” on December 11, 1996. Many people had questions about what was going on and how it got this way. The review that was done by auditors came to reveal $650,000 of unauthorized payments made to faculty through various programs and one particular in question was the executive training program. Dean Hasler the man in charge at Hass Business School was put on the hot seat and questioned about these allegations. A problem of this degree has to start somewhere and the first person in charge was Dean Hasler, many question if his acts were done alone or accompanied by others in the university. While digging into the financial statements it was discovered that this fraud had taken about 2 years to perform and it seemed as if it was to cover the pay for 17 professors who didn’t do any other extra work to acknowledge their pay increase. Dean Hasler’s view for making such payments to professors was to keep up with a tough market; he didn’t want to loose his top professors to other universities that might pay more. Dean Hasler says that he did not do anything wrong and that all payments made to professors are documented and approved by his superiors. Dean Halser did provide proof of his approval to use funds to cover sufficient increases in salaries for his professors. This letter was very suspicious though it came from representatives of the business school who are elected into position. Many might say that it was a conflict of interest.