When Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University on Jan. 2, she did so amid a swirl of controversy that was not only damaging to her personally, but also to Harvard overall.
While Gay’s situation, which involved criticism over the university’s handling of antisemitism on campus and accusations of plagiarism, was highly unusual and unlike what most corporate leaders would ever face at one time, HR leaders can learn from her experience — and avoid the same happening at their companies, said Stephen Paskoff, CEO of Employment Learning Innovations (ELI) and a former EEOC and employment law attorney.
