Word: casefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACSR progress report on its case-by-case review in February reinforced skepticism over the committee's effectiveness. The committee noted the difficulty of collecting information on corporate practices...
...active therapy, not indolence: Ford led a reign of atrophy. "A time to heal" cannot explain away the nonpareil frivolity of the WIN button (which Ford still defends as a "good idea"); in line with his Calvinistic youth, Ford is begging off his responsibility to a force, in this case history, beyond his control...
Student charges of the committee's ineffectiveness and its near-perfect record of following the Corporation's line, especially as an investor using Harvard's power through shareholder resolutions, has marred the committee's image among students. The Corporation assigned the committee the task of a case-by-case review of corporate practices in South Africa and of recommending possible shifts in the portfolio. The ACSR could have taken on the role of independent critic, but it has rarely dissented from past Corporation policies. Its reports indicated that instead of fighting to alter corporate practices by sponsoring shareholder resolutions...
Between the ACSR's case-by-case approach and the Corporation's inertia, Harvard's recent investment record has been confusing at best. Although the Corporation espouses a policy of owning voting stock in companies to insure that it can influence corporate practices through shareholder resolutions, it retains $40 million worth of non-voting notes in General Motors Assistance Corporation (GMAC). Lawrence F. Stevens '65, the ACSR secretary, says the investment "may be worth an ACSR review" in the future. However, Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility, does not see a conflict between...
Wilson and Herrnstein's course emerges from a Gen Ed course the two professors began teaching three years ago on crime and public policy. Over the years they let the public policy issue slide as they became increasingly absorbed with what Wilson calls "the special case of crime...