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Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which submits proxy votes on companies in which the University holds shares, came out strongly in favor of policies that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in ballots cast in the last year...
...CCSR was supportive of proposals to either amend or add clauses to corporate equal opportunity policies in order to include protections for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. It voted in favor of proposals at Robert Half International, AmSouth Bancorp, Expeditors International of Washington, and Leggett and Platt to adopt non-discrimination policies. It also opposed proposals to eliminate references to sexual orientation in the non-discrimination policies of Bank of America, Ford Motor, and JP MorganChase...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) is created to advise the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) on issues of ethical investing. The ACSR is made up of 12 members—four students (one undergraduate), four faculty, and four alumni. The CCSR agrees with the ACSR 80% of the time...
...decision to divest from PetroChina in April of last year due to “deep concerns” about the role of PetroChina’s parent company, the China National Petroleum Corporation, in supporting the Sudanese regime. A report by the Harvard Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) stated that “substantial revenue from Sudan’s oil production has gone toward the purchase of weapons.” Then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin S. Powell said in September 2004 that “genocide has been committed” in the western...
Following the trend of recent years, company proxy proposals addressing environmental policy topped the Harvard Corporation’s voting docket, according to an annual report released today. Harvard’s two-member Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) reviewed 126 proxy proposals, voting on 96 while abstaining on the other 30. After reviewing the proxy proposals, a 12-member Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)—which is composed of students, faculty, and alumni—decides which proxies it will take a stance on. The ACSR then gives the CCSR non-binding recommendations...