Harvard Revokes Tenure and Fires Disgraced ‘Honesty’ Prof
“Harvard administrators notified business faculty of their decision during a closed-door meeting this past week”
This is an update to a story we have been following since last year. Just another bad media cycle for Harvard.
WGBH reports:
In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor
Harvard University has stripped a world-renowned scholar of her tenure status. The university’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, decided this month to revoke Francesca Gino’s tenure and end her employment at Harvard Business School.
Gino, who was celebrated for her research on honesty and ethical behavior, had faced scathing allegations of academic misconduct and fraud.
Several sources tell GBH News that Harvard administrators notified business faculty of their decision during a closed-door meeting this past week, and a university spokesperson confirmed the move. Gino did not immediately respond to several requests for comment.
In 2023, Harvard launched an internal investigation into Gino’s work after concerns were raised on a blog called Data Colada, run by a group of behavioral scientists who scrutinize academic research. The Harvard investigation concluded that Gino had manipulated certain data to support her hypotheses in at least four of her studies.
At that point, the university placed her on unpaid administrative leave.
Gino denied the allegations and filed a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard, Harvard Business School Dean Srikant Datar and the Data Colada bloggers. In court, she alleged defamation, gender discrimination and invasion of privacy. She also claimed the accusations irreparably damaged her reputation and career.
Last September, a federal judge in Boston dismissed Gino’s defamation claims against both Harvard and the bloggers, ruling she is a public figure so their scrutiny of her work was protected by the First Amendment.
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Now fire the antisemites Harvard.
They most likely just fired one of them.
But claudine gay still getting paid $900k per year?
For teaching 1 class?
She has The Melanin Shield of Invincibility
As I recall most of the bloggers in question are female. Gender discrimination?
From what I remember reading about this case, there are others implicated in the whole web of deceit that goes deeper than just Gino herself. That being said, she is the stereotypical business psychology researcher: pre-draw your conclusions then go hunt for data to support it. Or just make sh*t up. Usually, her type chooses the latter.
She isn’t the only one. There is a whole lot of real shaky and shady research being published out there and precious little serious peer review of it.