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...Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) led the protest outside Massachusetts Hall, part of its ongoing campaign to pressure Coca-Cola to provide health coverage for 100,000 people in Africa who work for wholly or partially owned subsidiaries of Coke. The University has an extensive relationship with Coca-Cola: It has sizable holdings in the company and contracts for campus dining halls and vending machines, not to mention the fact that a member of the Board of Overseers is also an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Coca-Cola. HAC has called on Harvard to use this influence, particularly...
...correct that Coke should change its policies. For a company like Coca-Cola to refuse to provide health coverage to its subsidiaries’ workers is unacceptable—the cost to the company would be bearable, while the lack of coverage costs many workers their lives. Coke already provides HIV treatment to its direct employees here and in Africa, but workers for subsidiaries—mostly bottling factories—do not have access to confidential HIV testing or treatment. Coca-Cola should change its policies to meet these demands, pushing employment standards in Africa up towards levels...
Harvard, too, should do all it can to address the problem of HIV/AIDS, but it can do more if it does not divest from Coke. The University’s status as a large shareholder and contractor lets it hold Coca-Cola to a higher standard than the market alone necessarily requires. Harvard should vote its shares and pressure Coke publicly to provide full health coverage. As a premier research institution devoted to the public good and as an investor wealthy enough to be influential, Harvard is in an ideal position to lead the way on this issue...
...letters on official stationery to top executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund--and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci; at Coca-Cola, for a cousin. It didn't help that McCall was slow to answer the charges, other than to say he wasn't asking for special treatment. But he sent aides to the state archives to scoop up boxes of formerly public letters that hesaid had been released by mistake...
...easy in a globalized culture. "Every other girl we tested," says Noyce, "seemed polluted by the body language that you inherit from TV commercials, magazines, movies." Yen's body language was innocent, pure. It was language that caused problems. "When I asked her if she would like a Coca-Cola," Noyce recalls, "she answered, 'I'm 18 years...