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Star Harvard business professor stripped of tenure, fired for manipulating data in studies on dishonesty
NY Post ^ | 05/27/2025 | Richard Pollina

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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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: academia; education; fraud; harvard; harvardprofessor; harvarduniversity; professor; university
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To: Lizavetta

I bet she has man hands.


21 posted on 05/27/2025 4:54:06 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: DFG

She was just doing a pilot study on dishonest behavior and its consequences.


22 posted on 05/27/2025 4:56:31 AM PDT by caddie (Always laugh at your own jokes. Other people can't be counted on.)
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To: DFG

Francesca Gino, Lying liar.


23 posted on 05/27/2025 4:57:32 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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To: DFG

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.


24 posted on 05/27/2025 5:02:05 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: DFG

“Research” funded no doubt by government grants.


25 posted on 05/27/2025 5:07:04 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: DFG

Harvard didn’t fire her for falsifying a study. They fired her for getting caught.


26 posted on 05/27/2025 5:14:30 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DFG
...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.

I wonder how many millions of dollars this crucially important study cost us taxpayers?

27 posted on 05/27/2025 5:15:19 AM PDT by KevinB (I don’t really care, Margaret.)
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To: DFG
I have no idea since Harvard is left wing and she does not present as either left or right wing. It is difficult to imagine Harvard just doing something correct anymore.

She posted this on X:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francescagino_francesca-v-harvard-activity-7113580163321192448-xT8J

Francesca Gino’s Post
View profile for Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino Francesca Gino is an Influencer
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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.  

28 posted on 05/27/2025 5:16:17 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: DFG

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.


29 posted on 05/27/2025 5:19:06 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Lizavetta

Sort of looks like the marketing woman in the Bud Light Transsexual controversy.


30 posted on 05/27/2025 5:21:33 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: DFG

There is no “Veritas” (Harvard’s motto) without God.


31 posted on 05/27/2025 5:25:28 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: DFG

LOL!!! TYTPICAL DEMOCRAT!! LIAR!! CHEATER!!


32 posted on 05/27/2025 5:26:36 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..H)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

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.


33 posted on 05/27/2025 5:28:10 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Dixie Yooper

Go into politics.

L


34 posted on 05/27/2025 5:29:23 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: tired&retired

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.


35 posted on 05/27/2025 5:38:51 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: lowbridge

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).


36 posted on 05/27/2025 5:41:57 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: af_vet_1981

My wife says this leftist will say the firing is because she “is a woman.”


37 posted on 05/27/2025 5:42:17 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: DFG

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.


38 posted on 05/27/2025 5:42:18 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: KC Burke

She did claim that in her lawsuit.


39 posted on 05/27/2025 5:43:03 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: DFG

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.


40 posted on 05/27/2025 5:44:37 AM PDT by dangus
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