The billionaire hotel scion at the center of the fight over Harvard

The billionaire, a 66-year-old Hyatt hotel heir, had been with Harvard President Alan Garber for an alumni event, according to a person close to her. Pritzker was set to fly back home to Chicago to celebrate the Jewish holiday with family. But first, she had to confront a major escalation in the school’s fight with Trump over billions of dollars in federal funding.

The heat on Pritzker rose again this week. On Monday, donor Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund billionaire, Harvard alum and Trump ally, criticized her on CNBC: “It’s time for a change in leadership in the board at Harvard.” Later that day, Education Secretary Linda McMahon piled on in a letter posted to social media, calling her…