A Monster.com Of a Problem

The issue was cleared up when TMP recently revised Taylor's professional history on the Web site, which now states that Taylor earned a "certificate from the OPM Program" at Harvard Business School, a distinction that reportedly requires attendance for three weeks a year for three years, which is kind of a far cry from an MBA.

Taylor's incident is just the latest installment in a recent string of reports about high-profile executives who have found themselves in hot water because of inaccuracies on their resumes or professional histories.

Almost as ironic as the Monster.com case was Veritas' abrupt dismissal of former chief financial officer Kenneth Lonchar last October after the company discovered he did not have an MBA from Stanford Business School, as he had claimed (see "Building a Better Veritas" on page 24). Even more ironic: Veritas is derived from the Latin word meaning "truth."

In any event, Taylor has a leg up on Lonchar and others like him: If Taylor were dismissed from Monster.com, at least he'd know where to start looking for a new job.