For the first time in about 80 years, Harvard University has revoked the mandate of one of its teachers.
The university revoked the mandate of the professor of the Harvard Business School Francesca Gino, widely known for seek honesty and ethical behaviorconfirmed a university spokesperson on Monday.
Gino, 47, and his lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
Gino was placed on administrative leave in 2023 after multiple allegations data falsification has surfaced. She has long argued that she has not committed school fraud.
Harvard refused to provide additional details on the revocation, noting that he is not discussing staff issues.
This decision does not seem to be linked to the The current confrontation with the Trump administration. For weeks, Harvard and the administration were in legal battles on the federal financing cuts of the university and Ability to register foreign students.
Revocation is an unprecedented penalty at Harvard, where no teacher has lost the mandate since the 1940s, according to the newspaper of the student university The Harvard CrimsonDuring an exceptional period of the history of the oldest university in the country.
Who is Professor Francesca Gino?
Gino obtained a diploma in economics from a small university in Italy, from his country of origin, a copy of her resume said.
She then obtained her doctorate. In economics from the University of Pisa before moving to the United States to work on a postdoctoral scholarship in Harvard.
“I had to stay in the United States for about 6 to 9 months,” she wrote in 2023 Posted on LinkedIn. “But I really liked my research and my work, so I never left.”
“I will never forget how lucky I was to have people at Harvard invest in me,” she added.
Gino was a lecturer and researcher at the Harvard Business School before becoming a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and later at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
According to her curriculum vitae, she returned to Harvard as a professor at the business school in 2010, teacher in higher education and negotiation courses. Three years later, she published her first book, “Sidetracked”, on science behind decision -making.
In 2015, the school’s news sites and the Quants appointed it “called him”Best 40 of less than 40 teachers. “”
Gino published a second book in 2018, “Rebel Talent”, in which she maintains that rules of rules and opposites are the most successful in business and in life.
Throughout her university career, she has published more than 140 learned articles, many of which were largely presented in the media, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. According to his research on behavioral economics, organizational behavior, decision -making, negotiation and ethics, according to the Harvard website.
The Crimson said that 2018 and 2019, Gino was the highest fifth employee of the university, with more than a million dollars in compensation per year.
Some of his most important studies have been centered on dishonesty.
Allegations of academic fraud
A team of behavior teachers and researchers affiliated to The blog website Data Colada began to examine several studies co-written by Gino in 2021, “because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data,” said the site.
The site alleged that the data of a co-author of Gino was manufactured, which the researchers denied.
Later that year, the blog said that it had shared concerns about more than four of the other Gino articles with the Harvard Business School.
Gino was placed on unpaid administrative leave in June 2023 after an 18 -month examination by the University concluded that she had committed a “lack of research”, according to a The Gino trial has filed Against Harvard and Data Colada that year.
Data Le Post de Colada on his Gino exam is also cited in his trial.
According to the trial, this decision withdrew Gino from his teaching, research and professor’s responsibilities. Gino continued Harvard and Data Colada for defamation, seeking 25 million dollars in emergency.
The prosecution indicates Harvard’s changes to his internal policies concerning the integrity of his research in 2021, which seems to have been made in response to allegations against Gino.
Last year, a federal judge partially rejected the trial, refusing Gino the ability to pursue allegations according to which the University defamped it. However, the judge granted Gino’s request according to which the university violated his contract with her to continue.
A month later, Gino changed the trial to include requests for sex -based discrimination.
