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https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184289296/harvard-professor-dishonesty-francesca-gino
Francesca Gino, a prominent professor at Harvard Business School known for researching dishonesty and unethical behavior, has been accused of submitting work that contained falsified results.
Gino has authored dozens of captivating studies in the field of behavioral science — consulting for some of the world's biggest companies like Goldman Sachs and Google, as well as dispensing advice on news outlets, like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and even NPR.
But over the past two weeks, several people, including a colleague, came forward with claims that Gino tampered with data in at least four papers.
On June 16, one of Gino’s co-authors, Max H. Bazerman, reported to theChronicle that Harvard believed that one of the studies overseen by Gino in the paper had falsified results. A day later, Data Colada announced it is publishing a four-part series detailing fraud found in four of Gino’s papers. The first, titled “Clusterfake,” was published on June 17 and the latest, “The Cheaters Are Out of Order,” published on June 23. Each post in the series has detailed receipts for their allegations.
“It is worth reiterating that to the best of our knowledge, none of Gino’s co-authors carried out or assisted with the data collection for the studies in this series,” the authors wrote.
She is a full professor, according to her HBS page.
Francesca Gino - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School
ETA: Professor of Business Administration
Francesca Gino, a prominent professor at Harvard Business School known for researching dishonesty and unethical behavior, has been accused of submitting work that contained falsified results.
Gino has authored dozens of captivating studies in the field of behavioral science — consulting for some of the world's biggest companies like Goldman Sachs and Google, as well as dispensing advice on news outlets, like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and even NPR.
But over the past two weeks, several people, including a colleague, came forward with claims that Gino tampered with data in at least four papers.
The allegations surfaced as far back as 2021 when Data Colada – a blog written by prominent data and behavioral scientists Uri Simonsohn (Professor of Behavioral Science at ESADE Business School), Leif Nelson (Ewald T. Grether Professor in Business Administration & Marketing at Berkeley Haas School of Business), and Joe Simmons (Dorothy Silberberg Professor of Applied Statistics At The Wharton School) — published a blog post alleging that an experiment in a 2012 paper likely included fraudulent data. It was this blog that also raised the initial doubts about Amy Cuddy’s work. The paper, “Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end,” was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It has since been retracted.
The Rise & Fall Of A Harvard Business School Superstar
Francesca Gino, accused of fabricating data on at least 4 research papers, is on administrative leave from Harvard Business School.poetsandquants.com
On June 16, one of Gino’s co-authors, Max H. Bazerman, reported to theChronicle that Harvard believed that one of the studies overseen by Gino in the paper had falsified results. A day later, Data Colada announced it is publishing a four-part series detailing fraud found in four of Gino’s papers. The first, titled “Clusterfake,” was published on June 17 and the latest, “The Cheaters Are Out of Order,” published on June 23. Each post in the series has detailed receipts for their allegations.
“It is worth reiterating that to the best of our knowledge, none of Gino’s co-authors carried out or assisted with the data collection for the studies in this series,” the authors wrote.
She is a full professor, according to her HBS page.
Francesca Gino - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School
ETA: Professor of Business Administration
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