A Harvard Business School graduate, Vladimir Artamonov, was arrested for allegedly running a $4 million Ponzi scheme, exploiting his alumni network to deceive investors with false promises of high returns, and using the funds for personal expenses, leading to significant financial losses and one investor's suicide.
Harvard University has revoked the tenure of Professor Francesca Gino at Harvard Business School following allegations of research misconduct and an investigation that concluded she was responsible for data fabrication, marking the first time Harvard has stripped a tenured faculty member of tenure since the 1940s. Gino denies the allegations, and her case is ongoing with a lawsuit against Harvard.
Francesco Gino, a leading scholar on honesty and a behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School, has been accused of fabricating data in multiple studies by three peers in behavioral science. The trio has found evidence of bogus data in four studies and believes that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data. Gino is now on administrative leave and has not commented on the controversy. The controversy has rocked the academic world of behavioral science because Gino has many collaborators and is a leading scholar in the field.