In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor

[Demovictory9]

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education-news/2025-05-25/in-extremely-rare-move-harvard-revokes-tenure-and-cuts-ties-with-star-business-professor


2025
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.

[orleans]

1. oh, the irony

not that she was fired but that she was manipulating data on her honesty and ethical behavior research.

[Demovictory9]

3. There are youtubes about her fraud..very interesting

[NJCher]

2. Seems shocking and ironic

But it happens way more than we think.

Know how I know that? Because I used to have a job helping dissertation writers set up their studies. I did this for years and never saw any change in what seems to be a natural human tendency to make your work more significant than what the data shows.

They intellectually knew it was a possibility their research might reveal nothing new, but actually putting in the time and effort to end up there was damn difficult.