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...revelation that the University could own $16 million in PetroChina and Sinopec stock is particularly stunning considering that at the time of the earlier, highly-publicized divestitures, Harvard’s disclosed direct investment in the two companies totaled just $10 million...
...implementation of this model would not require any substantive policy change from the position Harvard adopted when it decided to divest from its direct holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec back in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Both those decisions were made on the grounds that Harvard should not be supporting companies with proven complicity in a situation that the U.S. government has determined to be genocide—in other words, companies that meet the "worst offending" criteria. Furthermore, there is precedent for this approach. During the mid-1980s, Harvard started screening the "worst-offending" companies operating in South Africa under...
...best way to tackle this problem is not to avoid the issue at hand, but to raise money to provide direct funding of students’ book purchases. Some have proposed simply augmenting the expenses section of the financial aid package, and letting low-income students decide what to do with extra money. That is outrageous for an institution whose first priority should be the education of its students. People should not have to choose between books for their classes and the other costs that inevitably arise at school...
...revelation that the University could own more than $16 million in PetroChina and Sinopec stock is particularly stunning considering that at the time of the earlier, highly-publicized divestitures, Harvard’s disclosed direct investment in the two companies totaled just $10 million...
...University has no direct control over the distribution of assets at either of the Barclays iShares funds...