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...Harvard Corporation adopted many of the ASCR's specific recommendations and enunciated four basic policies which have, since 1978, guided the decisions of the CCSR and formed the basic framework for the ACSR's recommendations to the CCSR...
This past year the CCSR proposed and, with the support of the ACSR, initiated a program of intensive dialogue with several of the portfolio companies who are not Sullivan signatories in good standing. This dialogue has consisted of correspondence and personal meetings between the Secretary of the CCSR and company representatives. The CCSR has also written to the other portfolio companies who are not Sullivan signatories in good standing, and intends to engage in more intensive dialogue with them in the near future. The CCSF has stated that it will, as a general guideline, recommend divestment of a company that...
...twelve members of the ACSR join in this part of the Report, which outlines their case for Harvard's careful and responsible divestiture of its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa...
...with sister institutions and the administrators of the Sullivan Principles, expand the scope and strengthen the content of the existing principles defining the ethical responsibilities of companies with South African operations in relation to employment conditions and other opportunities enjoyed by non-white employees and their families. Recently the ACSR and the CCSR endorsed several shareholder proposals calling on U.S. companies with South African operations to embrace goals recently enunciated by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Some of these goals go beyond the Sullivan Principles and the principles of socially responsible behavior adopted by Harvard in 1978. Bishop Tutu has called...
...believe that Harvard's existing policies should be expanded to include and implement these policies, which have already been endorsed (in the contest of votes on shareholder proxy resolutions) by both the CCSR and ACSR...