Honesty researcher committed research misconduct, according to newly unsealed Harvard report

Honesty researcher Francesca Gino “committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly,” according to an investigation completed last year by the Harvard Business School(HBS) that was publicly released this week as part of Gino’s ongoing lawsuit against the university. On Tuesday, despite objections from Gino, a judge granted Harvard’s motion to unseal the report the university had submitted in its defense, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported . Gino, who was publicly alleged by three data sleuths to have falsified data in four publications, is pursuing a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard, the school’s dean, and the sleuths, who blog collectively as Data Colada, for damage to her reputation and lost income and career opportunities. The nearly 1300-page report from HBS includes the investigation committee’s conclusions, as well as hundreds of pages of transcripts from interviews carried out during the probe, written responses to the committee’s questions from Gino and other witnesses, and a report from a forensics firm hired by the school. Gino’s lawyer challenges the validity of the investigation and the judge’s decision. “I disagree with releasing a one-sided, unreliable, and confidential HR [human resources] document without any context and without opportunity for my client to dispute the factual allegations through the normal process of litigation and discovery,” he said in a sta...
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