Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Govemment $246,914,156 2. IBM $74,109,498 3. Ford $55,562,975 4. Mobil $53,036,556 5. Exxon $41,937,361 6. Quebec Hydro-Electric $31,354,629 7. GM $30,614,761 8. Eastman Kodak $26,824,948 9. Continental Oil $22,064,320 10. General Reinsurance...
...Harvard's Ten Favorites 1977-1978 1. U.S. Govemment $172,948,919 2. IBM $69,514,352 3. ATT $57,159,868 4. GM $43,177,075 5. Exxon $36,149,488 6. Schlumberger, Ltd. $28,412,199 7. General Reinsurance $24,090,120 8. Quebec Hydro-Electric $23,873,934 9. Standard Oil, California $20,912,364 10. Mobil...
Over the two-year period of heated debate on the morality and justifications for Harvard's South Africa-related investments, IBM remained Harvard's number two investment, and Ford and Eastman Kodak were dropped from the top ten. Harvard decreased its investments in Ford because of a downturn it predicted in the auto industry and demoted Eastman Kodak to an "average investment" over the two-year period because of the costs of the company's stock. The principal reasons for the movement of the two stocks were not, Walter M. Cabot, deputy University treasurer, says, considerations of the companies South...
...decide whether IBM had monopolized various markets claimed in Memorex's $900 million antitrust suit, jurors needed a detailed understanding of things like "reverse engineering," "cross elasticity of supply" and "subordinated debentures." The trial lasted 96 days. The jury heard 87 witnesses and examined some 3,000 exhibits. After deliberating for 19 more days, it could not reach a unanimous verdict. Federal Judge Samuel Conti declared a mistrial. He then ruled in favor of IBM, though the jury had favored Memorex by 9 to 2. Suspecting that the jurors were baffled by the whole case, Judge Conti began asking...
...trying the case before a judge. So why do many lawyers choose to try complex cases before a jury? "Usually it's because they think they have a weak case that they couldn't win before a judge," says New York Lawyer David Boies, who defended IBM in one of its many antitrust suits...