The insane salary disgraced Harvard dishonesty professor Francesca Gino was earning before she was fired, lost tenure

The discredited former Harvard professor — fired from her cushy position for fabricating data on studies focused on dishonesty — was once one of the top-earning employees at the Ivy League school.Francesca Gino earned a staggering $1 million per year as a behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School and, from 2018 to 2019, was the fifth-highest-paid employee at the university, according to the university’s student-run Harvard Crimson.However, Gino’s career at the Ivy League school came to a screeching halt last week when administrators stripped her of tenure and fired her after an investigation determined she tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted her hypotheses.The once-celebrated academic became the first professor at Harvard to have their tenure revoked since the 1940s when the American Association of University Professors formalized termination rules.Gino — who had authored over 140 scholarly papers and snagged numerous awards — had first come under scrutiny in 2023.A trio of behavioral scientists published a series of blog posts on Data Colada citing evidence claiming four of her co-authored papers published between 2012 and 2020 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, during which Gino and individuals who worked with her on the papers were interviewed.The faculty of the Harvard Bus...