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...begin your pre-interview research in the OCS library. Useful directories include Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and Dun & Bradstreet's Reference Book of Corporate Managements. We also get Business Week, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. We also have a collection of the annual reports of recruiting companies...
Finally, the ACSR last night reaffirmed two decisions on the University's policy toward cooperation with South African operations. The committee voted unanimously to recommend, as it did last year, that the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation sign the Sullivan Principles, a minimum set of ethical labor practices for American corporations that do business in South Africa...
...giant of the field is Hospital Corporation of America, which Dun's Business Month last year rated as one of the five best-managed companies in the U.S. With 367 facilities worldwide, a staff of 40,000 physicians and 7.5 million patients daily, H.C.A. has been called "the McDonald's of the hospital business." Founded in 1968 by Dr. Thomas Frist, 82, a Nashville cardiologist, his son Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., 44, and Jack Massey, 78, one of the founders of Kentucky Fried Chicken, H.C.A. is today run by the younger Dr. Frist. While he is a trained...
...yesterday, members of the ACSR said Harvard should examine the Sullivan ratings or other similar guidelines before buying a particular stock, citing in particular two recent Harvard acquisitions of stock in companies that have refused to even sign the Sullivan principles, Dun-Bradstreet and Cheseborough...
...Jane Bryant Quinn, who also writes for Newsweek, Ken Prewitt, a reporter for MONEY, and Evening News Correspondent Ray Brady, an alumnus of the business-oriented Forbes and Dun's Business Month who nonetheless tends to stress the impact of economic trends on the ordinary viewer. "He is much more consumer oriented than anyone else on the beat," says a senior CBS News executive. Contends Brady: "You can boil most economic phenomena down to whether you do or don't make money...