Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Sees His Wife Accused of Plagiarism - The New York Times

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Neri Oxman, a former M.I.T. professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, Bill Ackman, vowed to check the work of the entire M.I.T. faculty. By Anemona Hartocollis and Anna Betts Accusations of plagiarism appear to be the newest weapon in the raging battle over the leadership and direction of elite universities. For weeks, Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has campaigned on social media against Claudine Gay, who resigned as Harvard’s president amid accusations of plagiarizing other scholars and of not taking a strong enough stand against antisemitism on campus. But that battle was brought home after Business Insider, an online publication, posted similar accusations of plagiarism against Mr. Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, an architect and designer, who holds a Ph.D. in design computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Business Insider said on Friday that Dr. Oxman “stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars and techni

Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Neri Oxman, a former M.I.T. professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, Bill Ackman, vowed to check the work of the entire M.I.T. faculty. Neri Oxman at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York in 2017.Credit...Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit Jan. 5, 2024, 9:46 p.m. ET Accusations of plagiarism appear to be the newest weapon in the raging battle over the leadership and direction of elite universities. For weeks, Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has campaigned on social media against Claudine Gay, who…

Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Sees His Wife Accused of Plagiarism - The New York Times

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