Posted on 05/27/2025 3:37:11 AM PDT by DFG
A renowned Harvard University professor was stripped of her tenure and fired after an investigation found she allegedly manipulated data to support multiple studies she conducted.
Francesca Gino, a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School whose work has focused on dishonesty, was let go after the school’s top governing board determined she tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted her hypotheses, GHB reported.
Harvard administrators notified business faculty that Gino was out of a job in a closed-door meeting this past week, the outlet reported.
Harvard did not detail the professor’s firing or tenure being stripped — citing it as a personnel matter — but told GHB that the school had not revoked a professor’s tenure in decades.
No professors have had their tenure revoked at Harvard since the 1940s, when the American Association of University Professors formalized termination rules, according to The Harvard Crimson.
The Post has reached out to Harvard for comment.
The star Ivy League professor — who had authored over 140 scholarly papers and snagged numerous awards — had come under scrutiny in 2023 when a trio of behavioral scientists published a series of blog posts on Data Colada accusing four of her papers published between 2012 and 2020 she had co-authored contained “fraudulent data.”
A preliminary investigation of Gino’s work by Harvard was launched in October 2021 after concerns about the papers’ sketchy data were brought to the school.
A full probe into the allegations was conducted in 2022 and 2023, where Gino and people who worked with her on the papers were interviewed, with faculty of the Harvard Business School also reviewing and analyzing her data, emails, and papers’ manuscripts.
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Her data did not reflect a Bell Curve. An indicator that it was manipulated.
Keep in mind that this is going on while Harvard is telling Trump that it should keep getting govt money.
She-a lia-a.
I see a new career in climate "science."
Bttt
Is the opening statement for this hypothesis available for review?
Behavioral scientist.... you can’t make this crap up.
A preliminary investigation of Gino’s work by Harvard was launched in October 2021 after concerns about the papers’ sketchy data were brought to the school.
A full probe into the allegations was conducted in 2022 and 2023, where Gino and people who worked with her on the papers were interviewed, with faculty of the Harvard Business School also reviewing and analyzing her data, emails, and papers’ manuscripts.
2) a reminder that justice takes time , but it does come.
OTOH she is married with four children so could it be she was too much a woman and not enough left wing?
We can’t trust any modern “studies.” They are lying liars who lie and you just never know.
A preliminary investigation into Gino’s work by Harvard was launched in October 2021, following concerns about a study she co-authored that claimed requiring individuals to sign an honesty pledge at the beginning of a form, rather than at the end, significantly boosts honest responses.
“There is one thing I know for sure: I did not commit academic fraud. I did not manipulate data to produce a particular result,” she wrote.
“I did not falsify data to bolster any result. I did not commit the offense I am accused of. Period.”
I’ve seen this not infrequently. First, the woman in question, Gino, is from Italy - where she did her training. That’s fine, but there are more than a few self-selected highly ambitious people from outside the US who are highly motivated to ‘make it’ in academics at a high profile American University - and who will push the margins to accomplish that. They overstate and oversell their data. They bring in foreign graduate students, often from a pipeline from their own country of origin, and they are often very tough bosses to their graduate students. They also know how to network, and their international connections help with this.
Well, at least the hypothesis made sense, what are you going to do, go back and erase all your lying entries when you come to the honesty statement at the end of the form?
Man, the Bee has really slipped. This could have been their headline article.
The rot in Harvard starts at the top.
Cleanse it. Like with the FBI, total purge except for the lab techs.
.....A renowned Harvard [Business School] professor was stripped of her tenure and fired after an investigation found she allegedly manipulated data to support multiple studies she conducted.....
Good!
I know one of her lawsuits got tossed, but I secretly hope she can prove Harvard wrong and nails them for, oh, say 10% of their endowment fund and a public apology and ad campaign admitting their dishonesty and incompetence.
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