Harvard Revokes Tenure of Business School Professor Francesca Gino "After Years of Data Fraud Allegations"

NBC News (Viola Flowers) reports:

Gino, widely known for researching honesty and ethical behavior, was placed on administrative leave in 2023 after multiple allegations of falsifying data surfaced….

No professors are known to have lost their tenure at Harvard since the 1940s, when the American Association of University Professors formalized rules of termination, according to The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.

Gino's lawsuit against Harvard related to Harvard's earlier disciplinary actions is still pending, but her defamation claims (including ones against authors at Data Colada, who had raised the allegations) were dismissed in September.

Comments

[Bored Lawyer]

So Harvard honors cheats as well as Jew-haters. Good to know.

[Mr. Bumble]

Is claiming Native American heritage based on "high cheek bones" cheating?

[jb]

In Bored Lawyer upside down land, getting tenure revoked is an honor.

[Sarcastr0]

This thread is gonna be real good for spotting the knee jerk trolls who see Harvard and A Bad Thing and can’t stop themselves.

Surprised BL got caught but he’s been getting more AMGA empty/angry and less analytical lately.

[Brett Bellmore]

Nah, I just think this is the same general sort of phenomenon as people going into psychiatry because they're aware on some level that they're nuts. Professional ethicists having horrific ethics is almost a trope at this point.

I doubt it's the rule in either profession, but it is common enough to be something of a cliche.

[Mr. Bumble]

"Ironically, Gino’s work focused on honesty and ethical behavior. The Harvard Crimson reveals that she was a celebrated researcher in her field and the fifth-highest paid employee at Harvard in 2018 and 2019. Overall, she received more than $1 million in compensation each year."
Gateway Pundit

[Dr. Ed 2]

My experience is that the more one talks about honesty and ethical behavior, the less ethical and more dishonest they are.

[bye]

Could you talk more about that 🙂

[dwb68]

Author of "Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break Rules at Work and in Life." Dey Street, 2018.

Paid 1 million annually. It seems, it indeed does pay to break rules at work.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Freud would have called this behavior -- pointing out dishonesty in others while guilty of it herself -- "projection".

[mike petrik]

Yes, though I think more precisely I think it is assuming dishonesty in others because you are consciously or subconsciously aware of your own dishonesty. .

[Roger S]

The salary is astounding. Something must be seriously wrong with how Harvard hires and promotes professors.

[Dr. Ed 2]

How much of that was as a PI in her grants?

[Dr. Ed 2]

Let me translate that into English: PI is "Primary Investigator", and you can pay yourself out of your grant. You can also buy release time, i.e. not have to teach. Some places give PIs back a portion of the overhead costs (i.e. overhead).

Every place is different, I don't know Harvard's rules. But if she was bringing in a lot of grant money, she likely was getting a chunk of it. That's usually how it works.

[Roger S]

Harvard is crying a lot about federal grants being cut off. Somebody should add up how much she got in grants.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Harvard fired Timothy Leary -- I was told that he had tenure but I'm not able to verify that.

[jb]

Seems pretty unlikely he had tenure. He was hired in 1959 and fired in 1963.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Good point -- for some reason I was thinking he was fired in 1969.
I didn't know LSD was around in 1963.

[thesafesurfer]

The inflation of this isolated, an almost non-existent accountability for the otherwise completely unaccountable ivory tower begins.

[bye]

The administration is criminal if the teacher is. YOu suspect, you don't know, and you don't care.

[Kleppe]

Now we know what Harvard won't tolerate.