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Aeneas and Harken were “exploiting, as many companies did, a fundamental weakness in accounting rules,” said Bala G. Dharan, a former visiting professor at Harvard Business School and a finance expert from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management...
According to Dharan, Harken was not required to disclose its holdings of HAP because they amounted to less than 20 percent of the partnership...
Documents obtained by the watchdog group show that in an August 1990 Harken board meeting, Bush made a motion calling for discussion about the partnership to proceed...
...University denied any link between their investments in Harken and Bush...
...report comes months after news of other questions about Harvard’s links with Harken. The Crimson reported in July that HMC owned more than $28 million worth of Harken stock in 1990, when Bush served as a director of Harken and sold 212,140 shares of the company for $848,560. The close timing of Bush’s sale and Harvard’s purchase of Harken stock led to speculation that the University was the unknown buyer of Bush’s shares...