Harvard revoked the mandate of Francesca Gino, Professor of the Harvard Business School who has fought data fraud allegations for almost four years, and ended his job at university last week, a spokesman for Harvard confirmed.
This decision concluded the two -year battle of Gino to keep his position in school – and marked a historical Penalty for a member of the faculty at Harvard, where no teacher is known to have lost his mandate since at least the 1940s, when the rules of academic protection were formalized.
Gino, a behavior scientist who has become famous for studying honesty and ethical behavior, was accused of manipulating observations to better support his conclusions. Before her work was examined, she was an eminent researcher in her field and the fifth highest employee paid in Harvard in 2018 and 2019, receiving more than a million dollars in compensation each year.
The Harvard Corporation made the final decision to revoke Gino’s mandate earlier this month, according to WGBH, which first reported this decision.
A spokesperson and Gino lawyers did not respond to requests for comments.
His work First was the subject of a public examination In August 2021, when the Data inquiry blog, Colada, alleged that the data in a document it co-author was fraudulent. The newspaper was retracted in September 2021.
In 2022, HBS launched an 18 -month investigation, which ultimately determined that Gino had committed an academic fault. HBS Dean Srikant M. Datar placed Gino on unpaid administrative leave, prohibited him from the campus and revoked his pulpit appointed in June 2023. The same month, Data Colada accused Gino of data fraud in three additional research articles that she co-written.
In July 2023, the university also launched a official review Gino’s mandate at the request of Datar. A month later, Gino deposited it $ 25 million trialsAllegating that the University, the dean of HBS Srikant M. Datar and the Data Colada, the bloggers – Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson and Joseph P. Simmons – had conspired to defame it.
The prosecution challenged a new policy established by HBS in August 2021 after the data fraud allegations were brought for the first time against Gino. Politics – which has not been verified by nor announced to the HBS faculty, a departure of the usual practice of the school – has expanded the definition of the misconduct in research. And he established that those who have broken the policy could “be subject to sanctions until the end.”
In his trial, Gino alleged that the new rules had been created only for her.
Gino’s current judicial disputes have been a mixed success in court. The judge of the American district court Myhong J. Joun rejected Gino’s defamation claimed in September 2024, but he authorized another key element of the Gino trial to move forward: the allegation that Harvard violated the Gino contract by submitting it allegedly to unfair disciplinary measures in violation of university permanence policies.
A month later, in October 2024, Gino filed a request To change its prosecution to include title VII and complaints of discrimination.
Gino also took his battle before the Court of public opinion. In September 2023, Gino wrote a letter to the Faculty of HBS by claiming She was innocent And had to “correct this evil”. She also published a personal website, where she accused HBS of fault and conspired with Data Colada to damage her reputation.
“It was overwhelming to see my career decimated and my reputation completely destroyed,” wrote Gino on his website in October 2023.
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