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...Harvard is committed to efficient and sustainable energy, and will invest in this on a substantial scale, but we don’t believe that it is appropriate to use an optional check-off fee as a mechanism for supporting those investments,” Summers said...
...brand. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is in talks to acquire the very English MG Rover, and has already bought Korean SUV maker Ssangyong. A consortium of Chinese companies bid on the Canadian mining firm Noranda. According to a recent study by Bain & Co., China's foreign investments will reach $86 billion by 2015. These global ambitions have generally been encouraged by the government, with Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai last month urging the nation to "reinforce our invest-abroad strategy...
College students also invest themselves into this city. As shown by the Phillips Brooks House Directory, there are a limitless number of public service programs in which students engage. Harvard students act as older siblings to local teens, spend time with kids affected by cerebral palsy, hold summer camps for local kids, and help run a local homeless shelter. Investments of these sorts, while perhaps not directly reflected in the city’s GDP, cannot be overlooked as forms of indispensable contributions to the community...
...What’s this clause trying to do, ladies and gentlemen? It’s a thou-shalt-not-invest clause,” she added...
Total gifts to the University for current use accounted for almost $239 million, down from $251 million in fiscal 2003; total gifts for capital jumped to $353 million from $311 million. The latter rise partly resulted from a dramatic increase in gifts from life income funds, a newly-approved investment arrangement where donors invest in Harvard’s endowment, receive a payout each year, and give their entire stake to Harvard upon their death...