This guy claims to have earned his DBA from Cambridge University.

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  1. dl_mba

    dl_mba Member

    Found this profile on Linkedin.
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/drbillhill

    He claims to have a DBA from Cambridge University.

    Did some research and found University of Cambridge do not offer DBA.

    http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/phd/index.html

    Below is this person's Education Details:

    Bill Hill, DrBA’s Education

    Cambridge University - DrBA - Business Management
    Dr BA, Business Management, 2003 — 2005

    Cambridge University - MS - eCommerce
    MS, Electronic Commerce, 2002 — 2004

    The University of Dallas
    MBA - not completed, Telecommunications Management, 2002 — 2002

    Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
    MDev - Not Completed, Religious Studies, 1995 — 1997

    Webster University - MA Management
    MA, Management, January 1987 — June 1989

    Midwestern State University - BS Criminal Justice (Pre-Law)
    BS, Criminal Justice (Pre-Law), January 1977 — June 1980
     
  2. BlueMason

    BlueMason Audaces fortuna juvat

    Did you e-mail him and ask him about it? :) Get the investigative reporter inside you out!
     
  3. bazonkers

    bazonkers New Member

    I can't even find an MS in e-commerce as an degree they offer. Doesn't mean they don't, however ...
     
  4. TCord1964

    TCord1964 New Member

    No offense, but why do I care? If it's from this school his resume is a ticking time bomb that will explode in due course. Unless he holds some kind of public or elected office, or a job that could put the health and safety of the public at risk, this is his problem.
     
  5. bazonkers

    bazonkers New Member

    I don't think it's that school. They don't list an e-commerce degree either. Who knows. And, true, I don't really care. :)
     
  6. edowave

    edowave Active Member

    I highly doubt this person's degree is from the Cambridge. Most likely from another school with Cambridge in it's name.
     
  7. dlady

    dlady Active Member

    I never participate in the witch hunt threads. But, I don't see DBA I see Dr BA. I don't know what a Dr BA is, but if your going to hunt someone at least don't change what they say.

    DEL
     
  8. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    There was a Cambridge State that was a totally fraudulent school, and I'm pretty sure that one of the degrees they offered was a DBA, so my guess is he's probably claiming a total degree mill credential.

    BTW, as far as I know, "Dr BA" is not a recognized degree (another indication it may be a fake) so perhaps the guy is just trying to clarify it's a doctorate in business administration.
     
  9. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    This is one of the worst resumes I've seen.
    I note also he got abbreviation of his M.Div. wrong.
    Of course this resume may have been compiled by someone else (or a computer).
     
  10. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    Can you actually add drop-out or incomplete degree into the resume?
     
  11. bazonkers

    bazonkers New Member

    He isn't being dishonest. It's his resume and I guess he feels he can put on it whatever he wants. I'd personally would have listed it as "Graduate Coursework, blah blah U, 2002".
     
  12. friendorfoe

    friendorfoe Active Member

    I wouldn't... but then that's just me. Does anyone really ever see any benefit from these social networking sites? All I ever hear about on these are bad things, surely there must be some benefit to belonging to one of these other than plain ol' vanity of "hey lookit, I'm famous because I'm on the net" kind of thing.
     
  13. dlady

    dlady Active Member

    I used my connections and group memberships on linkedin to send out a survey. I got back about 200 responses, about 80 of which were from the CXO linkedin group. After some analysis, I discovered that the results had something interesting to say about data warehousing and knowledge management in large firms. I wrote it all up in an article and submitted it to: http://www.iiis2009.org/wmsci/Website/AboutConfer.asp?vc=18

    The article underwent three levels of peer review (where I got back some good and other than good feedback) and got picked up to present at the conference this July and published in their journal after the conference.
     
  14. RFValve

    RFValve Well-Known Member

    It is obvious that his credentials are bogus. He studied a DBA from Cambridge at the same time that he was working in the US which means that he did it distance and part time. Even if the real Cambridge would allow him to do an external doctorate, there is no way he would be able to finish it in the two years that he claims. In fact, no legit doctorate can be earned in such a little amount of time on a part-time basis.

    I don’t see any academic appointments either; this would be unusual for a real doctor from Cambridge.
     
  15. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    I'm not so sure about this (at least for science degrees) - I worked with several Ph.D.s from Cambridge when I worked for DSIR, plus one of my inlaws has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cambridge and never worked in academia.
     
  16. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    WMSCI is a well-known publication mill. Just google "SCIGEN".
     
  17. dlady

    dlady Active Member

    Tell me more.
     
  18. RFValve

    RFValve Well-Known Member

  19. bazonkers

    bazonkers New Member

    Lots of academics on the CHE forums consider this to be a fraud conference and a waste of money. I wouldn't list it on your CV. Can you have the paper pulled? I'm not sure you'd want your name showing up in article searches attached to this conference.
     
  20. dlady

    dlady Active Member

    Sure, I could have the paper pulled. It is a legitimate paper, good research, all that. I can submit it anywhere. This conference was actually recommended to me by a professor at Temple University.

    The paper they published that was junk, when I read about it, says that it was published as an 'un-reviewed' paper. I received a lot of feedback on mine, and was asked to make many changes.

    Are you sure this is a bad publication and conference?
     

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