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Comment by leephillips

8 hours ago

Too bad Harvard doesn’t have similarly high standards.

Can you elaborate ?

Recently a Harvard president, Claudine Gay was sacked.

Also Francesca Gino was also punished for her (alleged still ? ) fabrication of data.

So what's the problem ?

  • The problem is that Claudine Gay was not sacked, she was allowed to resign as president and is still, at this moment, a professor at Harvard. Here is her faculty web page:

    https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-gay

    So Harvard employs, as a full professor, someone whose Ph.D. thesis contained loads of plagiarism (I’ve seen the evidence, it’s not contestable). A similar offense on the part of the students who sit in her classroom, according to Harvard’s own rules, could lead to expulsion.

    EDIT: Also, as pointed out in a comment below, Prof. Gay’s Ph.D. is from Harvard. It was not revoked.

    • I wonder in the case of Francesca Gino, how much of that was driven by Harvard.

      I remember it was technically initiated by the Harvard business school, but it was probably triggered by data colada launching their own investigation.

      This speaks to your point.

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  • > Recently a Harvard president, Claudine Gay was sacked.

    But Gay's PhD was not revoked.