With plagiarism and cheating becoming more and more prevalent in Business Schools across the country, teachers and faculty members are working harder and harder to keep their students honest. But when assignment instructions are vague should a student be punished for wanting to collaborate with classmates? In the article, Academic Honesty in the Business School: A Case Study, Rob Early is about to be punished for just that. Students like Rob should be rewarded for their collaborative efforts and not punished for what is acceptable in the business community. Academic Honesty in the Business School: A Case Study deals with two students in the same MBA program that were given a take home assignment by their teacher. Rob and Melanie had been working closely with each other to complete assignments all year, so naturally Rob and Melanie had decided to work together on this assignment as well. They shared the ideas they both had and worked through most of the scenarios together, but they both wrote their papers separately. Upon grading their papers though the teacher thought they were too similar and accused them both of cheating. In this case study we are asked to decide if Rob and Melanie should be punished for collaborating on this assignment together. I do not think they should be punished and in this paper I will cite sources and argue why they should not. The business world and educational institutions have a very different view of collaboration. Collaboration is defined as "to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something  (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Most educators are quick to look at students who have collaborated on an assignment as cheaters though. This is most likely because studies have shown that 72-75% of college students have admitted to cheating and 85% believe cheating is necessary to get ahead (Caveon, 2014). Teachers cannot believe that students are not cheating if they are collaboratin