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...decisions to divest from Angola’s oil industry, apartheid South Africa, and tobacco stock—all these decisions were made on an ad hoc basis. This “Bok system” has several problems. First, the “exceptional circumstances” criteria for divestment forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur because they are reactionary. This means the overall process is slow and arduous. For instance...
...Sunderman identified this inconsistent criteria as problematic...
Harvard Business School (HBS) is considering reviewing its current admissions criteria to ensure credibility in response to increased concern over the role of professional admissions consultants in the application process...
...giving students a big slap in face.” Summers told The Crimson last April that Harvard’s CCSR and Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) would consider divestment from other companies financially tied to the Sudanese government “in light of the criteria established in the CCSR’s statement.” The ACSR is a 12-person panel of students, faculty, and alumni that makes recommendations to the Harvard Corporation on ethical issues surrounding Harvard’s investments. However, Harvard has yet to divest from other Sudan-linked companies remaining...
...recommendations to the State Department—whether for or against granting an individual an immigration benefit,” Homeland Security spokeswoman Jamie E. Zuieback wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday. She declined to comment on the lawsuit, but added, “Criteria for revocation include public safety risk [and] national security risk, among others.” A State Department spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment yesterday. Eck and Jameel Jaffer, a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School, an ACLU attorney working on the lawsuit, said that Ramadan could not possibly...