What happened here was a massive donation was made. At some random point, someone in a position of power at Harvard noticed that a team was pissing on Mark's l

What happened here was a massive donation was made. At some random point, someone in a position of power at Harvard noticed that a team was pissing on Mark's leg, and so put an end to it. Mark probably couldn't care less about the research, yet the optics about Harvard's treatment of him were at stake.