Harvard ethics professor Francesca Gino, famed for honesty research, loses tenure after 80 years—university cites data fraud, 2023 administrative leave, and a $25 million lawsuit. “I did not—ever—engage in academic fraud,” Gino insists, as Harvard remains silent.

Gino, once head of Harvard’s Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, becomes the first professor since the 1940s to lose tenure at the university. Ethics studies, administrative leave, and a new employment policy swirl together as Gino claims, “These are bogus allegations.” Picture: a résumé under lock and key.

No Harvard professor had lost tenure since the 1940s—until Gino’s dramatic fall.