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☆ Our Journalism: A Note from CEO Barbara Peng
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Barbara Peng | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

We are a journalism organization with high standards and a commitment to truth and fairness. Regarding the recent reporting on Neri Oxman, we feel it's important to share the following:There was no unfair bias or personal, political, and/or religious motivation in the pursuit of the stories. The stories were newsworthy and Neri Oxman, who has a public profile as a prominent intellectual and has been a subject of and participant in media coverage, is a fair subject. The process we went through to report, edit, and review the stories was sound, as was the timing. Business Insider supports and empowers our journalists to share newsworthy, factual stories with our readers, and we do so with editorial independence.

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☆ Neri Oxman plagiarism claims: Business Insider stands by reporting on Bill Ackman’s wife
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In a note Sunday morning, Barbara Peng, chief executive of Business Insider, said the outlet had spent several days reviewing its reporting after public complaints made by Ackman. “Business Insider supports and empowers our journalists to share newsworthy, factual stories with our readers, and we do so with editorial independence,” Peng wrote. “We stand by our newsroom and our reporting, which will continue onward.”In the wake of the reporting, Oxman acknowledged she had failed to properly cite some of her work. A spokesperson for Axel Springer told CNN on Sunday that the German publishing powerhouse was satisfied with the review Business Insider had completed. “We stand by Business Insider and its newsroom,” the spokesperson said.

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“We stand by Business Insider and its newsroom,” said a spokesman for Axel Springer, the German media company that owns the publication. With its stories, Business Insider raised both the idea of hypocrisy and the possibility that academic dishonesty is widespread, even among the nation's most prominent scholars. The business leader reached out in protest to board members at both Business Insider and Axel Springer. “Business Insider supports and empowers our journalists to share newsworthy, factual stories with our readers, and we do so with editorial independence,” Peng wrote. Business Insider would not say who conducted the review of its work.

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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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☆ Bill Ackman says he'll review all MIT professors for plagiarism
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bill Ackman is ramping up his search for plagiarism and pledged to review all MIT professors' work. Ackman led the charge to get Harvard president Claudine Gay to resign over plagiarism accusations. AdvertisementBill Ackman is ramping up his crusade against plagiarism to include the work of all Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors after Business Insider reported on several instances of plagiarism found in academic work by his wife, Neri Oxman, a tenured MIT professor. We will begin with a review of the work of all current @MIT faculty members, President Kornbluth, other officers of the Corporation, and its board members for plagiarism." Business Insider told us that they are publishing their story… — Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 5, 2024A representative for Ackman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

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Neri Oxman , a former MIT professor and celebrity within the world of academia, stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars, and technical documents in her academic writing, Business Insider has found. AdvertisementNeri Oxman directly copied from Wikipedia in her Ph.D. dissertationOn page 81 of her dissertation, "Material-based Design Computation," Oxman published two sentences without attribution that had previously appeared on Wikipedia. Business InsiderThe Wikipedia article for "Weaving" featured virtually identical sentences in April 2010 , when Oxman's dissertation was submitted. Business InsiderOxman's cribbing from the "Weaving" article was one of 15 examples that BI found Oxman plagiarizing from a Wikipedia article in her dissertation. The bulk of the plagiarism BI found was in her dissertation, which runs more than 300 pages.

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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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☆ Neri Oxman admits to plagiarizing in her doctoral dissertation after BI report
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. BI identified four instances in Oxman's dissertation in which she lifted paragraphs from other scholars' work without including them in quotation marks. In those instances, Oxman wrote in a post on X , using quotation marks would have been "the proper approach for crediting the work. Oxman wrote on X that after she has reviewed the original sources, she plans to "request that MIT make any necessary corrections." Oxman now leads an eponymous company, Oxman , focused on "innovation in product, architectural, and urban design," she wrote on X.

Persons: —, Neri Oxman, Bill Ackman, Oxman, Claudine Gay, Ackman, Gay, Christopher Rufo, OXMAN Organizations: Service, Business, Harvard, MIT Locations: Gaza, Harvard's, Cambridge

☆ Bill Ackman's celebrity academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Katherine Long | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, resigned after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized. But for Bill Ackman, the plagiarism wasn't only cause for Gay's immediate ouster as Harvard's president — it also warranted her total removal from its faculty. AdvertisementGay resigned as Harvard's president on Tuesday. One remains: Kornbluth, the president of MIT, where Oxman wrote her thesis and worked from 2010 to 2020. "Stay tuned @MIT," Ackman replied.

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☆ HPE CEO: AI interest is much higher than I ever anticipated, and we see an enormous pipeline
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHPE CEO: AI interest is much higher than I ever anticipated, and we see an enormous pipelineHPE CEO Antonio Neri joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the state of software and enterprise demand, whether AI spending will hurt other types of cloud spending, and how much of the company's server orders were related to artificial intelligence platforms.

Persons: Antonio Neri

☆ ULA CEO says inaugural Vulcan rocket launch planned for December
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: ULA, Antonio Neri Organizations: Vulcan, Royal Philips, Huntington Bancshares, San Francisco, Ivanhoe Cambridge

☆ HPE CEO Antonio Neri: Here's why AI is a big opportunity for us
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHPE CEO Antonio Neri: Here's why AI is a big opportunity for usAntonio Neri, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss HPE's 2024 guidance, the next leg of growth, and more.

Persons: Antonio Neri Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

☆ At age 12, I signed myself up for online astronomy classes under my mom's name. 14 years later I became the first Mexican-born woman to go to space.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Katya Echazarreta became the first Mexican-born woman to go to space in June 2022. She became the first Mexican-born woman to go to space in 2022. I only spoke Spanish to my mom, who still hadn't learned English at that point. I didn't hear back until three years later, but during that time, I completed a space training program where I did training with microgravity, G-force, and pressurized spacesuits. Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesI'd always known that a Mexican-born woman hadn't traveled into space before because I'd been obsessed with this topic for so long.

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"I just want to say how deeply saddened that we all are about the recent horrific attacks on Israel ... He warned that the war in Ukraine, compounded by the attacks on Israel, could have "far-reaching impacts on energy and food markets, global trade, and geopolitical relationships." On Friday, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser included Israel in her opening remarks on the bank's earnings call. "Once someone ventures into the space of, 'who is the perpetrator and who is the victim,' you enter into the exposure of social media disinformation and risk," Kotok said. Some large companies including Apple (AAPL.O) and Walmart (WMT.N) had yet to issue statements, while some prominent personalities including NBA star LeBron James have spoken out.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Albert Bourla, Jefferies, Michael Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Jane Fraser, Israel, Fraser, Larry Fink, David Kotok, Cumberland, Kotok, Antonio Neri, Andy Jassy, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, LeBron James, Gigi Hadid, Lananh Nguyen, Aditya Soni, Stephen Nellis, Siddharth Cavale, David Gaffen, Arriana, Sayantani Ghosh, David Gregorio Our Organizations: JPMorgan, Pfizer, UBS, New York City, Bloomberg, Delta Air Lines, Citigroup, BlackRock, Cumberland Advisors, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon, Meta, Union, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Walmart, NBA, Thomson Locations: Israel, Ukraine, New York, Florida, Bengaluru

☆ ADL boss slams CEOs who stay silent after Hamas attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Corporate bosses are under pressure to condemn the brutal attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas. The ADL boss told CNN that many are reluctant to speak out because they "think it's too political." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Many corporate leaders have already condemned Hamas' attacks on civilians and the resulting violence. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Against this backdrop, I would think every corporate leader and every public person should be rushing to say something," he added.

Persons: Jonathan Greenblatt, —, Satya Nadella, Hewlett Packard, Antonio Neri, Greenblatt Organizations: ADL, CNN, Service, Defamation League, Hamas, Norwegian Refugee, LinkedIn, Microsoft Locations: Gaza, Israel, Hamas

☆ ADL leader slams corporation's response to terror attacks on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt slammed Corporate America’s response to the terror attacks on Israel as “disappointing at best, disastrous at worst.”“We have arguably the most vibrant commercial sector on the planet. Where were you when your Jewish employees needed you?” Greenblatt said of the CEOs. Greenblatt credited JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri and other executives who condemned the terror attacks and pledged solidarity with the people of Israel. “In America, your Jewish employees are dealing with something that is qualitatively and quantitatively different than any time in living memory. “This is not just some far-off conflict – though that would be enough for CEOs to speak out,” Greenblatt said.

Persons: Jonathan Greenblatt, ” Greenblatt, “, George Floyd, Izzat, Greenblatt, Chase, Jamie Dimon, Antonio Neri, ” Dimon, ” Kathryn Wylde, Martin Luther King, Jr, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, Defamation, CNN, ADL, Israeli Defense Forces, Hamas, Wednesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, US Chamber of Commerce, Business, “, World Trade, Partnership, Companies, Accenture, Adidas, Eagle, NASCAR, NBA, New York Locations: New York, Israel, Kfar Aza, Israeli, York, New York City, United States, France, United Kingdom

☆ CEOs Condemn Hamas’s Attack in Messages to Employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chief executives and other business leaders issued a flurry of internal memos and posts on social media to condemn the attack on Israel and offer support to employees. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, in a note to staff in Israel, said that the bank’s employees there and those traveling in the region were safe as of Sunday. Antonio Neri, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, called the attack by Hamas “unjustified and inexcusable” in a post on LinkedIn, and said the company was working to support employees and their families in Israel. Technology giant Nvidia canceled an artificial-intelligence summit scheduled to be held Oct. 15 and 16 in Tel Aviv. "The situation is extremely dynamic and we have asked our employees in Israel to focus on the safety of their families,” a spokesman said.

Persons: JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Antonio Neri, ” Organizations: JPMorgan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, LinkedIn, Technology, Nvidia Locations: Israel, Tel Aviv

☆ We have a lot of work to do when it comes to ethical codes for AI: Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe have a lot of work to do when it comes to ethical codes for AI: Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEOAntonio Neri, CEO and president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, discusses the development of ethical codes for artificial intelligence and business objectives, and says the public and private sectors have to "come together to solve these challenges."

Persons: Antonio Neri Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

☆ Customers are all very anxious to adopt AI technology, says HPE CEO Antonio Neri
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCustomers are all very anxious to adopt AI technology, says HPE CEO Antonio NeriHPE CEO Antonio Neri joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the company's quarterly earnings results, what AI is doing for Hewlett Packard, and more.

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☆ These are the 10 American states that are the most prepared for extreme weather
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Scott Cohn | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

But NOAA puts the Ohio Valley at the low end of its Climate Extremes Index, which considers temperatures, precipitation, drought and hurricanes. 2023 Infrastructure score: 205 out of 390 points (Top States grade: C+) Climate Extremes Index: 8.7% Properties at risk: 2.1% Renewable energy: 12.3%8. 2023 Infrastructure score: 231 out of 390 points (Top States grade: B) Climate Extremes Index: 23.68% Properties at risk: 4.2% Renewable energy: 42.5%5. 2023 Infrastructure score: 254 out of 390 points (Top States grade: A-) Climate Extremes Index: 8.7% Properties at risk: 2.7% Renewable energy: 34.6%2. 2023 Infrastructure score: 193 out of 390 points (Top States grade: C) Climate Extremes Index: 19.78% Properties at risk: 9% Renewable energy: 84%1.

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☆ Her New Husband Came With a Haussmann-Style Apartment in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Tim Mckeough | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By the time Megan Grehl finally met Côme Ménage, it felt as if their relationship was meant to be. “We missed each other by a month,” said Ms. Grehl, 37, who now runs her own interior design studio. You just missed Côme. When she posted a photo of the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, brownstone where she had rented an apartment, Mr. Ménage got in touch. Image Côme Ménage, a Brooklyn-based architect, and his wife, Megan Grehl, an interior designer, renovated his 19th-century apartment in Paris as their second home.

Persons: Megan Grehl, Côme Ménage, Grehl, Neri, Hu, Ménage, “, ”, she’d, Côme, Zack DeZon, Yves, Ren Locations: Shanghai, New York, Bedford, Stuyvesant , Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Paris, Williamsburg , Brooklyn

☆ HPE CEO Antonio Neri: We are the market leader in supercomputers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHPE CEO Antonio Neri: We are the market leader in supercomputersAntonio Neri, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the company's investment in the artificial intelligence space, whether the investment is cannibalizing other parts of the business, and more.

Persons: Antonio Neri Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

☆ HPE CEO on A.I. strategy, computing slowdown and revenue outlook
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHPE CEO on A.I. strategy, computing slowdown and revenue outlookHewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss company earnings after shares fell following reporting.

Persons: Antonio Neri Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

It suspended its probe in November 2021 at the request of the Philippines after Manila said it was carrying out its own investigations. The ICC investigation was reopened in January 2023 and on March 27 the ICC rejected Manila's request to suspend it pending an appeal questioning the court's jurisdiction and authority. It is not clear even among some government officials what cutting contact meant or whether the Philippines will completely drop its appeal against the ICC investigation. Police say they killed 6,200 suspects during anti-drug operations that ended in shootouts but reject accusations by human rights groups of systematic executions and cover-ups. There doesn't seem to be any political will within the Philippine government to seriously investigate," Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told CNN Philippines.

☆ Billionaire Ackman donates $3.25 million for ambulances in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Svea Herbst-Bayliss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Feb 26 (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has pledged $3.25 million to help buy more than a dozen ambulances for Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia's invasion, according to a fellow investor who cited a conversation with him. "I had breakfast with my college buddy Bill Ackman this morning, walked him through the attached slide deck I put together about my ambulances-for-Ukraine mission, and on the spot he agreed to donate $3.25 million," Tilson wrote in the email, dated Feb. 25. Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management oversees roughly $16 billion in assets. Tilson has been leading an effort to buy ambulances for Ukraine that will be operated by humanitarian aid group MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station), which is based in Malta. Ackman, whose great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from Ukraine, has an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion, according to Forbes.

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