Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third question, which the ACSR has wrestled with, and which I have wrestled with as well, is, should we sell the stock? I think the answer to that question should be no. And the reasons are, or among the reasons are the following...
Finally, I would like to address some remarks to the question of what has been going on, and what will be going on this spring with respect to the South African issue, assuming that there is no change in the policy of the Corporation. First, in January, the ACSR issued a report on the question of actions that a university should or should not take as a shareholder. I'd like, in view of remarks that have been made about this report, to say several things about...
First, and most important, it is not the policy, as far as I know, of the Harvard Corporation because it has not been considered by them the way that the report of the ACSR was last spring...
...second thing is that it was a response to a specific question put to the ACSR that was not put only with respect to the South African issue, and that question was, should Harvard, and if so under what circumstances, be in the position of initiating shareholder resolutions? And it was in that context, and I feel that it is important for me to some extent to defend my colleagues on the ACSR, it was in that context that we chose to go back and consult the historical documents and the evolution of the thinking on the University's appropriate...
...roughly a week the ACSR will complete and issue a report on the South African operations of the 49 portfolio companies, companies in Harvard's portfolio, that have operations. This report is based on the answers to the Sullivan questionnaire, answers to letters written by Harvard, and answers to the IRRC questionnaire. It's difficult to generalize about the contents of those questionnaires and the contents of the data we collected. I think it would be sufficient for the moment to say, first, that they do not paint a rosy picture of the situation in South Africa, and secondly, there...