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https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/harvard-professor-of-honesty- stripped-of-tenure-fired-for-manipulating-data-in-studies/

A renowned Harvard University professor was stripped of her tenure and
fired after an investigation found she fabricated data on multiple studies focused on dishonesty.

Francesca Gino, a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business
School, was let go after the school�s top governing board determined she tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted her hypotheses, GBH News reported.

Harvard administrators notified business faculty that Gino was out of a
job in a closed-door meeting this past week, the outlet reported.

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Francesca Gino, a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business
School whose work has focused on dishonesty, was fired by Harvard last
week.

Harvard did not detail the professor�s firing or tenure being stripped �
citing it as a personnel matter � but told GBH News 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
with evidence accusing four of her papers published between 2012 and 2020
she had co-authored contained �fraudulent data.�

A preliminary investigation into Gino�s work by Harvard was launched in
October 2021, 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.

This study was definitively retracted in 2021 due to �evidence� of data fabrication, which relied on three separate lab experiments to support its findings.

The same three behavioral scientists identified evidence that three other studies in the same paper appeared to rely on manipulated data.

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.

An outside forensics firm was also hired to analyze her studies� data.

When asked about the issues with her work, Gino asserted that issues with
her work may stem from errors by her or her research assistants or
potential tampering by someone with �malicious intentions,� according to
the university report.

However, investigators rejected both theories and provided findings to HBS
Dean Datar in March 2023.

The Ivy League school placed Gino on unpaid leave and began termination proceedings.

Investigators also suggested that the university audit Gino�s work and
request retractions for three of the papers; a fourth paper had already
been retracted by the time of their inquiry.

As the investigation was underway in 2023, Gino denied the allegations
against her on her website.

�There is one thing I know for sure: I did not commit academic fraud. I
did not manipulate data to produce a particular result,� she wrote.


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