Posted by Alumni from The Atlantic
November 20, 2024
For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. For Juliana Schroeder, it was catastrophic. She saw the allegations when they first went up, on a Saturday in early summer 2023. Schroeder teaches management and psychology at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. One of her colleagues'''a star professor at Harvard Business School named Francesca Gino''had just been accused of academic fraud. The authors of the blog post, a small team of business-school researchers, had found discrepancies in four of Gino's published papers, and they suggested that the scandal was much larger. 'We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data,' the blog post said. 'Perhaps dozens.' The story was soon picked up by the mainstream press. Reporters reveled in the irony that Gino, who had made her name as an expert on the psychology of breaking rules, may herself have broken them. ('Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings,' a New York... learn more
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