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Marshall retired from Necco in July of 2000, after 47 years in the candy industry??€”just as the company was gearing up to move to a new, larger facility in Revere...
Divestment reflects a sentiment that a particular company—or, in this case, an entire industry??€”is categorically immoral. Just over a year ago, this criterion was fulfilled when Harvard rightly divested from tobacco companies, which market a product that is uniquely addictive, harmful and irredeemable by today’s health standards. But the requirement is not met by the 11 top American defense companies in which Harvard invests. The weapons they produce, though designed to destroy, still have an important deterrent value. Just as it did during the Cold War, America today arms itself...
...licensing industry??€™s most recent stroke of genius has expanded an enterprise that already seems to produce everything anyone could possibly use. Now, not only can colleges equip students with a complete way of life—allowing them to wear, use and drink from its hallowed name—they also offer alums their vaunted insignias in death. Companies such as College Memorials in Macon, Ga., specialize in insignia caskets, urns and other truly lasting memorabilia that allow the proud alumnus to take their alma mater to the grave...
Before the last quarter century, the academic press focused almost entirely on highly academic books with negligible mass-market appeal. But while they still do not exist to make a profit, they are subject to constantly increasing pressures to make ends meet. Harvard led the way for the industry??€™s response to fiscal reality in the early 1970’s, according to HUP Marketing Director Paul Adams, when then-University President Derek C. Bok hired Arthur Rosenthal, the head of commercial publishing house BasicBooks, to run HUP. Rosenthal brought a more market-driven approach to the press...
Since its founding in 1913, the press has published countless award winners, including classics like John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, and its choices can set trends in the publishing industry??€”like the move to semi-commercial publishing itself...