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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who led a campaign criticizing Harvard University as it has been rocked by turmoil over practices related to antisemitism, plagiarism and financial management, on Friday failed in a bid to get four candidates on the ballot for a governing board of the Ivy League school.
One other candidate backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also failed to win a place on the ballot for the Ivy League school’s board of overseers
It’s hard to get into Harvard, even if you’ve done it before. Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, and Bill Ackman, head of the Pershing Square hedge fund, discovered as much, in their failed push to get dissident candidates onto the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing bodies. The candidates — a slate of four backed by Ackman and one candidate backed by Zuckerberg — said Friday that they had not collected enough petition signatures to get on the April ballot for election
The candidates — a slate of four backed by Ackman and one candidate backed by Zuckerberg — said Friday that they had not collected enough petition signatures to get on the April ballot for election to the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing bodies.
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