Word: ibm
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Those who serve on other boards--which range from small growth companies to fortune 500 businesses such as IBM--say they gain important experience and fundraising connections that ultimately benefit Harvard. But some ethicists question whether the close ties of the University's top officials to corporate American representsa conflict of interest...
Nowhere is the potential for conflict moreclear than in the stocks the University holds. Asof June 30, 1990--the latest date for which listsof the University's major stock holdings areavailable--Harvard had holdings in at least fourcompanies for which members of the governingboards now serve: Atlantic Richfield, IBM, J.P.Morgan & Company and The Pittston Company...
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With our system, which makes an example out of criminals, we have created a model society. Without any significant crime on our streets, we have pursued an economic miracle. Singaporean industry thrives. American companies like Coca-Cola, Exxon and IBM all invest in Singapore because they can make money in our country...
...March 14, Apple Computer unveiled the Power Macintosh series of personal computers, the first fruit of its 1991 alliance with IBM and Motorola. At Apple's recent Seybold Seminars exhibition in Boston I got a chance to kick the machines' tires and take a test drive to see the new "power" for myself...