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More than 400 students have signed an online petition calling on Harvard to shed its $13 million of indirect holdings in companies that do business with Sudan. The petition comes nearly two years after the University announced it would be divesting from Chinese oil firm PetroChina because of its dealings with the Sudanese government and one year after Harvard announced that it would sell its holdings in Sinopec, another company accused of helping to finance genocide in the Darfur region of the country. On March 1, the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), with the support of more than 20 University...
...Customers relied on Dunkin' for a doughnut and a cup of joe; they went to McDonald's for anything more. That easy division worked for years. Dunkin' rang up more than $3 billion in U.S. breakfast sales last year, compared with the Golden Arches' $7 billion, according to research firm A.G. Edwards. But the heat is on. In January McDonald's, which is in the middle of its own revival, scored big when its coffee beat Dunkin's in a Consumer Reports survey. Starbucks, meanwhile, rolled out hot breakfast sandwiches last fall while Burger King debuted a dollar menu featuring...
...with the fast-food giants, Dunkin' is trying to close the gap between itself and Starbucks. Although it makes more money on breakfast sales overall than the Seattle-based chain, the average Dunkin' check is just $1.85, vs. $3.75 at Starbucks, notes food analyst Tom Miner of research firm Technomic. Dunkin' has positioned its breakfast sandwiches as quick quality, at the same price as Starbucks, $2.99. "I think they're in a good position against their competitors," says Miner. "Their biggest challenge is to focus on a couple of very popular items and do them really well...
...investments can resume.” According to a Boston Globe report last July, the state’s worker pension fund holds investments of more than $300 million in 23 non-U.S. companies doing business in Sudan. That includes $33.3 million in PetroChina, the oil firm from which Harvard announced its direct divestment two years ago. But as of Dec. 31, Harvard still maintained a total of $13.4 million in indirect holdings in the oil companies Petronas and Sinopec, as well as PetroChina, through investment in funds managed by the British bank Barclays, according to a Crimson report...
...follower of his own advice. Hallahan, 45, had used a life coach to try to find a job that would be the perfect fit. An early adapter of MobiTV, he first came to the company as a partner of an ad firm to make a pitch for its business. The reverse happened. "What I saw here was the ability to lead the advertising community into new water," he says. "That for me was an interesting challenge because it's requiring a lot of the skills that I've acquired over the years." Having climbed a "significant learning curve" at MobiTV...