(NY Post)—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.
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