Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized some passages in her academic work.

Hedge fund manager and prominent Harvard donor Bill Ackman helped lead the charge against Gay, seizing on the revelations to underscore his calls for her removal following what he perceived as her mishandling of large protests against Israel's bombardment of Gaza on Harvard's campus.

An analysis by Business Insider found a similar pattern of plagiarism by Ackman's wife Neri Oxman, who became a tenured professor at MIT in 2017. Read more