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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I bet she has man hands.
She was just doing a pilot study on dishonest behavior and its consequences.
Francesca Gino, Lying liar.
For anyone who wants to understand the details..
https://youtu.be/8_ZRZccKmvg?si=gTgQjj9Qs5rdrDEd
This episode unpacks the details of the case, from the initial discoveries to the implications for science.
You’ll learn:
How a PhD student uncovered data manipulation in a high-profile study (feat. Zoe Xani’s investigation).
The critical role of whistleblowers in exposing fraud (feat. Data Colada’s analysis).
Key findings from Harvard’s 1,300-page report on research misconduct.
Which studies were faked and what they claimed to find.
How self-correcting mechanisms can strengthen trust despite scandals.
“Research” funded no doubt by government grants.
Harvard didn’t fire her for falsifying a study. They fired her for getting caught.
I wonder how many millions of dollars this crucially important study cost us taxpayers?
Francesca Gino’s Post View profile for Francesca Gino Francesca Gino Francesca Gino is an Influencer I'll Help You Bring Out the Best in Your Teams and Business through Advising, Coaching, and Leadership Training | Harvard Business School Professor | Best-Selling Author | Speaker | Co-Founder 1y I have been sitting in near silence for over three months, since learning that HBS was putting me on unpaid administrative leave, and banning me from campus, teaching and research. It has been shattering to watch my career being decimated and my reputation completely destroyed. It has been hard to see how this situation impacted those around me - my family, my mentors, my collaborators and my students. The information that has been available to the public, and the analysis posted by critics, may sound compelling. But the information is incomplete. The record needs to be corrected. This website is my attempt to do so: https://lnkd.in/eSucSwES Today I am breaking from the silence to tell my side of the story.
There seems to be a sense among the tenured in academia that once they obtain tenure they are really free to do as they please with no repercussions for doing the unethical. One can only wonder just how many “substantive” papers and research projects have been corrupted by this attitude. I think we would all be surprised at the number.
Sort of looks like the marketing woman in the Bud Light Transsexual controversy.
There is no “Veritas” (Harvard’s motto) without God.
LOL!!! TYTPICAL DEMOCRAT!! LIAR!! CHEATER!!
How so because of Trump? She was exposed by some very astute students who made their case on the internet with irrefutable evidence. There are many very ineresting videos about her case on youtube.
Go into politics.
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She sued Harvard and her accusers for $25 million which motivated them to dig even deeper into her work.
She plagerized several times in her books and the estimate is that 28% of her data was manipulated.
I feel the same way. I think a lot of folks from what used to be good schools are just shaking their heads. I’d never, ever send my kids to college (and I didn’t).
My wife says this leftist will say the firing is because she “is a woman.”
Gino grew up in Tione di Trento, Italy.
She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Trento, Italy, in 2001, and her MSc and PhD degrees at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa in 2004.
During these studies, she came to Harvard Business School as a visiting fellow, and stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow after completing her doctorate.
Before joining Harvard University in 2010, she taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She did claim that in her lawsuit.
What do you want to bet that this is firing the whistle-blower? Keep in mind, their most recent previous president basically plagiarized just about everything she ever wrote, IIRC.
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