Harvard University revoked one of its professors for the first time in about 80 years.
A university spokesman confirmed Monday that Francesca Gino, a former Harvard Business School professor, is well known for his research on honesty and moral behavior.
Gino, 47, and her attorney did not immediately return a request for comment.
The former professor was on administrative leave in 2023 after multiple allegations of falsifying data surfaced. She has long insisted that she has not committed academic fraud.
Harvard declined to provide additional details about her revocation, noting that it did not discuss personnel matters.
The move appears to have nothing to do with the ongoing confrontation between universities and the Trump administration. Harvard and the administration have been in a legal battle for weeks, cutting universities’ federal funding and the ability to recruit foreign students.
However, according to student university thesis Harvard Crimson, the revocation since Harvard University represents an unprecedented punishment for Harvard, and no professor lost his term in the country's oldest university history.
Her homeland, Gino received a degree in economics from a small Italian university, a copy of her homeland says.
She then received her PhD in Economics from Pisa University and then moved to the United States to work for a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.
"I was supposed to be in the United States for about 6 to 9 months," she wrote in a 2023 LinkedIn post. "But I really like my research and work, so I've never left."
“I will never forget how lucky I was to invest at Harvard,” she added.
Gino then worked as a lecturer and researcher at Harvard Business School, then became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and later as a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
According to her resume, she returned to Harvard University in 2010 as a professor at the University’s Business School, teaching graduate programs on decision-making and negotiation. Three years later, she published her first book, Sidetracked, which tells the science behind decision-making.
In 2015, business school news website poet & Quants named her "Professor under 40".
Gino, who published her second book, Rebel Talent, in 2018, believes rulers and counter-trends are the most successful people in business and life.
Throughout her academic career, she has published more than 140 academic papers, many of which appear widely in the media, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. According to the Harvard University website, her research focuses on behavioral economics, organizational behavior, decision-making, negotiation and ethics.
Harvard Crimson reports that in 2018 and 2019, Gino was the fifth highest-paid employee at the university, earning more than $1 million a year.
Her most outstanding research centers on dishonesty.
The website said behavior professors and researchers related to the blog site Data Coloda began looking at several studies Gino co-authored with others in 2021, “because we are worried that they contain fraudulent data,” the website said.
The website claims that the researchers denied that the data co-authored by Gino was studied by the study.
Later that year, the blog said it shared concerns with Harvard Business School about Gino's other four papers.
Gino was assigned unpaid administrative leave in June 2023 in June 2023, according to the lawsuit filed against Harvard University and Data Colada that year.
Data Colada also quoted posts about their check on Gino in the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, the move has caused Gino to remove from her teaching, research and responsibilities. Gino sued Harvard and data colada for $25 million in relief.
The lawsuit points to changes made by Harvard to the integrity of its internal policies in 2021, which appears to be against the allegations against Gino.
Last year, a federal judge partially dismissed the lawsuit, denying Gino's ability to file charges of defamation of her. However, the judge allowed Gino to claim that the university violated the contract with her.
A month later, Gino revised the lawsuit to include sexist claims.