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...although Steven Merill, a staffer on the Senate Science and Technology subcommittee, said last week the lobbying "may be out of the ordinary for a university--especially a particular university." But generally, because of the murkiness of the legislative situation in the Senate, Harvard has not expressed a very firm position on the Senate bill...
...after the Harvard Corporation finalized plans to establish a Real Estate Corporation. On that morning, Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, informed eight real estate officials that their jobs would no longer exist under the new organization. Wyatt told them they could reapply for positions in the new firm, but talk to a few of these officials and the general consensus is that somebody is trying to get rid of them. Or, as one member of the department expressed it, "If you're a paranoid person, there might be a lot here to be paranoid about...
...whole situation calls for experts, and O'Brien hopes the new corporation might attract specialists to Harvard. Four years ago, the University established the Harvard Management Company, a professional firm created exclusively to manage Harvard's investment portfolio. Officials say the new Real Estate Corporation will be organized along roughly similar lines, and hope it will have comparable success in the land business...
...seen any gross problems with the present management system but agrees that a corporation does offer ideal framework for real estate business. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Class of '71, Bland says he really has mixed views because he has both Harvard's interests and his own firm's business at heart. Hunneman will most likely be losing a little business, but Bland's position is, essentially, that Harvard's move is pragmatic, and he understands the situation. Or, as John Rumley, another associate of Hunneman puts it, "Harvard is our boss, so whatever they want...
State officials halted the operations of Bill Dillon and Co., an undergraduate-run investment firm, pending an investigation of charges of fraud and other business irregularities. The state order included charges that William P. Dillon '79, president of the company, represented the firm as an independent business when it was in fact a branch office of a larger securities firm. Dillon denied several of the state charges, but admitted that some errors might have been made "inadvertently." "The business was growing too fast. The people working with me were taking more initiative than they should have," he said...