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☆ Bill Ackman says it is a 'near certainty' that academics will improperly cite others' work after his wife admitted to plagiarism
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-07 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewBillionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman softened his tone on academic dishonesty after a report by Business Insider found his wife, Neri Oxman, plagiarized portions of her doctoral dissertation. A representative for Ackman declined to respond to questions from BI regarding his statements about plagiarism. Similar allegations against Gay and OxmanGay was accused in mid-December of plagiarizing portions of multiple academic articles, including her political science dissertation. Oxman has since admitted to the plagiarism , apologized, and pledged to review her sourcing and request corrections to her work as needed. However, a representative for the university told BI, "Our leaders remain focused on ensuring the vital work of the people of MIT continues, work that is essential to the nation's security, prosperity and quality of life."

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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
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-05 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

"Part of what makes her human is that she makes mistakes, owns them, and apologizes when appropriate," he wrote in a post on X following Business Insider's report on Oxman's plagiarism. That's a starkly different approach from the one he took toward Gay after she stepped down as president earlier this week. At the time, Ackman said she should be fired from Harvard's faculty entirely because of what he called "serious plagiarism issues." However, the instances of Oxman's and Gay's plagiarism have more similarities than differences, according to experts and an internal analysis. "It indicates a bad process to drafting this stuff, and I would say that's true for both Gay and Oxman," he said.

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