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...state's suit against the University, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has asserted that giving up the Harvard name would cause HPHC to lose investors, status and important name recognition. On the University side, HPHC and Harvard are both in the medical field. Should the HMO become a for-profit organization, it might begin entering into new lines of business that would directly compete with the University...
Grogan said the University would have more concern about the use of Harvard's name if the rehabilitation of HPHC--currently a nonprofit firm--makes it a for-profit company. However, he said that the University was not necessarily opposed to the use of the Harvard name in HPHC even if it does become for-profit...
Although the event will feature mostly for-profit "dot-com" Internet companies, it will also include online "dot-org" service organizations, and even companies that are not technology- based...
...Harvard spokesperson Joe Wrinn defended the University's decision to raise the name issue now, given recent media reports that the state has considered--among other options--turning the HMO into a for-profit company...
...last Saturday. I deftly jumped snowdrifts in a suit and heels of my own; I was on my way to a conference on "social enterprise." We discussed how to infuse a community with the resources necessary for growth, how to build sustainable partnerships, how to merge expertise from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors to build more effective programs. I was particularly struck by a call to action delivered by Andrea Silbert, director of the Center for Women and Enterprise. She asked us if we were idealists--did we believe in the ability to achieve social change...