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...endowment managers yesterday to sell the Sinopec shares after the Corporation’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—which comprises Robert D. Reischauer ’63, an economist, and James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic company Corning??€”recommended divestment. In a statement yesterday, the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility said that Sinopec is a partner in a venture that will significantly increase oil production in southeastern Sudan in the coming months...
...endowment managers today to sell the Sinopec shares after the Corporation’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—which comprises Robert D. Reischauer ’63, an economist, and James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic company Corning??€”recommended divestment. In a statement today, the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility said that Sinopec is a partner in a venture that will significantly increase oil production in southeastern Sudan in the coming months...
...Corning??€”best known for the glass-making technology it uses to provide diverse products from dishware to television screens to fiber optic cables—has close ties to the University. The company was founded 151 years ago by the Houghton family, longtime benefactors of Harvard. The company’s current chief executive, James R. Houghton ’58, is a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body...
...change in Corning??€™s leadership comes in the wake of a dramatic drop in the company’s earnings, the latest in a series of financial woes...
When James Houghton first became CEO at Corning, nearly 70 percent of Corning??€™s revenues came from cyclical, slow-growth businesses...