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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed on a wide variety of issues--corporate governance, infant formula, and many other less publicized debates--the ACSR and the Corporation have generally agreed...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Ethics of Investment | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

...shareholder resolutions before Harvard from the beginning of the ACSR through 1981, the Corporation and the Advisory Committee have agreed roughly 70-80 percent of the time...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Ethics of Investment | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

Nonetheless, certain issues have caused conflict between the two bodies--like South Africa, or, this year's debate over whether to invest in companies which produce nuclear weapons. The nuclear arms question is a good example of the kind of logic used by the Corporation when it opposes the ACSR on a particular issue. This key to understanding the process is the word procedent...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Ethics of Investment | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

Corporation members emphasize that they try to be consistent on issues over the years. But the ACSR which has five or six new members each year, it has been suggested, might be inclined to switch positions on a particular issue. But while the ACSR is able to change its recommendation on an issue, the Corporation, Putnam says, has got to have a "damn good reason" to switch positions. For instance, in 1981 the ACSR and the Corporation both opposed a resolution asking American Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) to set up a review committee on a nuclear weapons laboratory. When...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Ethics of Investment | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

...Valelly notes. "The whole Citibank issue showed to me they had no respect for precedent Kenneth Propp. a third-year law student and, former member for the ACSR, adds that citing precedent is an"unjustifiable tactic" by the Corporation because it serves as a pretext for covering up serious disagreements with the ACSR...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: The Ethics of Investment | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

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