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...doing well. Then there are the "noncore" assets: a remaining 20% stake in the water utility it spun off last year, Veolia Environnement, and a shareholding in Elektrim, a Polish telecommunications company. For a while Fourtou seemed to be betting on telecom: last year, even with his mandate to divest, he acquired BT Group's 26% stake in Cegetel, thwarting an attempt by Britain's Vodafone to take control. And last week, Vivendi's board signed off on a plan to increase its stake in a Moroccan telecom firm. But if he wanted to focus principally on telecommunications, then Fourtou...
Thirty-nine Harvard professors join a Harvard-MIT petition that calls for the University to divest from investment in Israel until it ends its occupation of Palestinian territories and stops human rights abuses...
...referred to a petition signed by faculty and students urging Harvard to divest its financial assets from Israel, as well as a plan by the Harvard Islamic Society to donate money to the Holy Land Foundation—a plan the group aborted when it was learned that the Holy Land Foundation was suspected of having ties to the terrorist group Hamas...
Teaching Assistant in History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 says that he was reluctant to join FIPJ since many of its members had signed a petition urging that the University divest from Israel earlier that year...
...this, Seidman was elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1986 on a pro-divestment platform. It was a time-consuming commitment for a Ph.D. candidate and anti-apartheid activist to take on, but she agreed to try because Harvard’s stance on divestment was used as a model for universities across the country. In her six years as an overseer, she was not able to get Harvard to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa, but her term paved the way for the election of Bishop Desmond Tutu and others sympathetic...