Bill Ackman says it is a 'near certainty' that academics will improperly cite others' work after his wife admitted to plagiarism

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CEO and Portfolio Manager Pershing Square Capital Management L.P. William Ackman speaks at The New York Times DealBook Conference at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

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Harvard's first Black president received so many death threats that police watched her residence 24/7, report says

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Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay.

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Bill Ackman says he'll review all MIT professors for plagiarism

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Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a textbook, and other sources without any attribution

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In Norway, I had the same teacher every year, which is called 'looping.' It's proven to benefit students.

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Bill Ackman wants more college presidents to be business people. But that's not the way it works.

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Bill Ackman (left) and Claudine Gay (right).
Bill Ackman (left) spent months arguing for the removal of Claudine Gay (right), Harvard's former president who stepped down earlier this week.

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How plagiarism by Claudine Gay, Harvard's former president, compares to that of Neri Oxman, an academic and Bill Ackman's wife

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Neri Oxman, a tenured MIT professor, appeared to have plagiarized some of her work, Business Insider reported. Her husband Bill Ackman has recently been on a crusade to attack now-former Harvard University President Claudine Gay for plagiarism.

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UC Berkeley is using a wall of shipping containers to block activists from the new site of its student housing complex

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UC Berkeley and other authorities continue to clear People's Park and place giant shipping containers and stack them by twos to barricade the park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA.
UC Berkeley and other authorities continue to clear People's Park and place giant shipping containers and stack them by twos to barricade the park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA.

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Neri Oxman admits to plagiarizing in her doctoral dissertation after BI report

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Neri Oxman at an event in 2017.

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Bill Ackman's wife, academic celebrity Neri Oxman, plagiarized in her dissertation. Ackman just used plagiarism as a reason to push Claudine Gay out at Harvard.

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