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Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Stanford University, resigned in August after an investigation found serious flaws in studies he had supervised going back decades. Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, resigned as the new year dawned, under mounting accusations of plagiarism going back to her graduate student days. Then, Neri Oxman, a former star professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was accused of plagiarizing from Wikipedia, among other sources, in her dissertation. H

Folks love rankings, but they love scandals even more, and two of the three stories by P&Q that drew the most eyeballs — and raised the most eyebrows — were about one of the biggest controversies of the year: the suspension of Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino. HBS Dean Srikant Datar’s handing of the allegations of Gino’s misconduct, including a review of her tenure, reported on first by Poets&Quants, was our single biggest story of the year, drawing more than a quarter million pageviews; put together, the two stories on this list (just two...

Judge to Rule on Whether Claims in $25M Lawsuit by Harvard Prof. Francesca Gino Will Proceed | News | The Harvard Crimson

Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Thanksgiving in the states (which probably means you won’t be reading this till Monday at the earliest), I’ll be grateful for sitting next to an impeccably polite economist reading and correcting a draft paper, which is taking every ounce of my self-discipline not to read over his shoulder (he’s...

Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino’s Research Collaborators Launch ‘Many Co-Authors Project’ to Check Her Work | News | The Harvard Crimson