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Bill Ackman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So it didn't bother me at all that they had identified problems with her work. So I shared, I reposted those posts. And then when the board, she ultimately resigned and she got a $900,000 a year professorship continuing at Harvard. I said, look, in light of her limited academic record and these plagiarism allegations, she had to go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So it didn't bother me at all that they had identified problems with her work. So I shared, I reposted those posts. And then when the board, she ultimately resigned and she got a $900,000 a year professorship continuing at Harvard. I said, look, in light of her limited academic record and these plagiarism allegations, she had to go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So it didn't bother me at all that they had identified problems with her work. So I shared, I reposted those posts. And then when the board, she ultimately resigned and she got a $900,000 a year professorship continuing at Harvard. I said, look, in light of her limited academic record and these plagiarism allegations, she had to go.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Um, I knew when I did so, I assumed I was actually a bit paranoid about that thesis I had written. I only had one academic work, um, but I hadn't checked it for plagiarism. And I thought that's gonna, that's gonna happen. Actually, I had a, uh, I, I had someone, I, I did not have a copy on hand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Um, I knew when I did so, I assumed I was actually a bit paranoid about that thesis I had written. I only had one academic work, um, but I hadn't checked it for plagiarism. And I thought that's gonna, that's gonna happen. Actually, I had a, uh, I, I had someone, I, I did not have a copy on hand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Um, I knew when I did so, I assumed I was actually a bit paranoid about that thesis I had written. I only had one academic work, um, but I hadn't checked it for plagiarism. And I thought that's gonna, that's gonna happen. Actually, I had a, uh, I, I had someone, I, I did not have a copy on hand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So I got a copy of my thesis and I, and I remember writing it, uh, Harvard at the time was pretty, uh, they kind of give you a lecture about making sure you have all your footnotes and quotation marks. I learned later that apparently they had a copy of my thesis at the New York Public Library. And a member of the media told me he was there online with

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So I got a copy of my thesis and I, and I remember writing it, uh, Harvard at the time was pretty, uh, they kind of give you a lecture about making sure you have all your footnotes and quotation marks. I learned later that apparently they had a copy of my thesis at the New York Public Library. And a member of the media told me he was there online with

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So I got a copy of my thesis and I, and I remember writing it, uh, Harvard at the time was pretty, uh, they kind of give you a lecture about making sure you have all your footnotes and quotation marks. I learned later that apparently they had a copy of my thesis at the New York Public Library. And a member of the media told me he was there online with

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

you know, a dozen other members of the media, all trying to get a copy of my thesis to run it through some AI. They had to first do optical character recognition to convert the paper document into digital. But fortunately, through a miracle, I didn't have an issue. I didn't think about Neri, of course, who has whatever, 130 academic works.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

you know, a dozen other members of the media, all trying to get a copy of my thesis to run it through some AI. They had to first do optical character recognition to convert the paper document into digital. But fortunately, through a miracle, I didn't have an issue. I didn't think about Neri, of course, who has whatever, 130 academic works.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

you know, a dozen other members of the media, all trying to get a copy of my thesis to run it through some AI. They had to first do optical character recognition to convert the paper document into digital. But fortunately, through a miracle, I didn't have an issue. I didn't think about Neri, of course, who has whatever, 130 academic works.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so we were just at the end of a vacation for Christmas break. And I was early in the morning for vacation time. And all of a sudden, I hear my phone ringing in the other room or vibrating in the other room multiple times. I'm like, I pick up the phone. It's our communication guy, Fran McGill.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so we were just at the end of a vacation for Christmas break. And I was early in the morning for vacation time. And all of a sudden, I hear my phone ringing in the other room or vibrating in the other room multiple times. I'm like, I pick up the phone. It's our communication guy, Fran McGill.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so we were just at the end of a vacation for Christmas break. And I was early in the morning for vacation time. And all of a sudden, I hear my phone ringing in the other room or vibrating in the other room multiple times. I'm like, I pick up the phone. It's our communication guy, Fran McGill.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And he's like, Bill, Business Insider has apparently identified a number of instances of plagiarism in Neri's dissertation. Let me send you this email. He sent me the email.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And he's like, Bill, Business Insider has apparently identified a number of instances of plagiarism in Neri's dissertation. Let me send you this email. He sent me the email.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And he's like, Bill, Business Insider has apparently identified a number of instances of plagiarism in Neri's dissertation. Let me send you this email. He sent me the email.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And they had identified four paragraphs in her 330-page dissertation where she had cited the author, but she had used the vast majority of the words in those paragraphs were from the author, and she should have used quotation marks. And then there was one case where she paraphrased correctly an author, but did not footnote that it was from his work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And they had identified four paragraphs in her 330-page dissertation where she had cited the author, but she had used the vast majority of the words in those paragraphs were from the author, and she should have used quotation marks. And then there was one case where she paraphrased correctly an author, but did not footnote that it was from his work.