Word: divestments
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...Summers divided much of the campus in September 2002 when he said that Harvard and MIT professors who advocated that the universities divest their endowment holdings from Israel were "anti-Semitic in their effect, if not their intent...
...believe that complicity in genocide is an academic value," Bakker said, also adding that he was skeptical about the CCSR's decision to add the Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC) to its list of companies to divest from...
...Crimson had reported in January that, despite the decisions to divest from PetroChina and Sinopec—two Chinese oil firms with ties to Sudan—Harvard still maintained indirect holdings in these firms worth more than $16 million through investments in other funds...
Although Harvard's decision to divest from PetroChina in April 2005 set a precedent as the first university to divest from a company because of its involvement in Sudan, Millenson said that the CCSR report indicates a disappointing change of heart in the University's investment decisions...
...report adds a third company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, to its list of companies to divest from. Although Harvard does not have a direct stake in ONGC, it does own more than $1.5 million worth of shares in the company through funds managed by the Blackstone Group and the British Bank Barclays...