And if it destroys Harvard s reputation on the process?
Frankly, Scarlett, they don't give a damn.
She isn’t going anywhere.....checks all the right boxes.
Instead of being #1, they'll get demoted to #100.
Maybe alumni will complain and withhold their donations. But Havard is self-sufficent. They'll remain #1 in social justice, which is all what they care about anyway.
This isn’t that different from what happened at Stanford this summer, except she’s of a protected class:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns/index.html