Word: firm
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...outside of Harvard's walls, but that should not and can not be the way it is here. A letter from the masters or discipline by the Ad Board does not erase the problem of homophobia, or any other kind of bigotry. Instead, the entire Harvard community must be firm and vocal in its position that intolerance is not tolerated...
...Harvard's General Counsel, Marshall selected her own former law firm to investigate complaints filed by several guards against the University about seven years...
Stephen G. McCombe, president of the Harvard University Guards' Union, said he believed Marshall acted improperly in hiring her own firm to investigate the charges...
...long oil slick. Since BP Amoco is the largest oil producer in the region, it's not surprising that environmental activists closely monitor its oil-exploration operations there. Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra to see just how well the firm had implemented its stated environmental and social aims. But Wenman doesn't work for Greenpeace. He was there at the oil company's expense, as the head of accounting firm Ernst & Young's environmental-services group, conducting an audit no mere accountant could accomplish...
Among other things, it means accounting firms need to hire people who may not know a debenture from a dividend, but who do understand carbon-dioxide emissions or child-labor scams. Thus, when the London office of KPMG recently formed its new Sustainability Advisory Services (SAS), it hired the core personnel en masse from the Body Shop, the British cosmetics firm that helped pioneer the practice of corporate social and environmental accountability...