Inside an Academic Scandal

Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Max’s awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School), the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute, and the Distinguished Scholar Award, the Distinguished Educator Award, and the Organizational Behavior Division’s Life Achievement Award from the Academy of Management. Max's consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in thirty-two countries.

• Preface1 “Your Paper Is Fraudulent”2 Relationships and Trust3 Crisis or Renaissance?4 The Diffusion of Signing First5 The Crisis6 Accusations7 The Lawsuit8 The Fraudsters9 Co-authors and Colleagues10 Reactions and Repercussions11 Why People Cheat12 Moving ForwardGratitudeNotesIndex

“Readers will find a well-written, clear, and direct account of a scientific fiasco that is still unfolding.”—Science"In his new book, Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal, Max Bazerman describes how his team’s buzzy discovery — that making people sign honesty pledges before filling out paperwork really did make them more honest — didn’t hold up under testing...Bazerman’s book details the fallout of the scandal and, most intriguingly, how good scientists can become complicit in bad science."—The Boston Globe"[A] wake-up call for behavioral scientists and the broader academic community."—GBH News“Academic fraud is seldom as openly discussed as it is in this absorbing book.” —Nature