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Crimson: Discussing the economic impact of Harvard in a global sense, the Corporation decided not to invest in banks which make direct loans to South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview With President Bok | 4/7/1981 | See Source »

...reducing the tax burden on America's middle and industrial classes will spur greater work effort, and induce the affluent to save a greater part of their incomes. Supply-side theorists pin the country's exorbitant inflation and interest rates to the failure in recent years of businesses to invest in modern plants and equipment. Their unwillingness to proceed with technological innovations is further cautioned by excessive taxation and regulation. Kemp and his retinue of economists propose that the additional savings and entrepreneurial activity will produce the much-needed investment to revitalize the country's aging capital stock and slow...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: When the Ax Comes Down | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

Though they are willing to invest heavily in automation and productivity, Japanese managers are tightfisted when it comes to spending on actual buildings, which they view as little more than shells required to keep out the rain while the work goes on inside. Japanese plants are constructed so that they can be expanded or redesigned with ease to accommodate new production techniques or additional assembly lines. After a few years the factories can be razed if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Japan Does It | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...from a record-like platter onto the screen of any home television set. Next week, RCA Corp. will unleash an avalanche of advertising to launch its version, called Selecta Vision. RCA has spent more than $150 million during the past 15 years to develop Selecta Vision, and it will invest another $20 million more before the end of the year to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three's a Crowd in Videodiscs | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Profitability is the bottom line of that performance. The Coop's sales last year totaled more than $37 million, and its members received a 9.5-per-cent rebate on their purchases. Although the cooperative society must provide this patronage refund to its members, it is entitled to invest its profits from non-member sales into plant, stock, equipment and, inevitably, further expansion. The Coop's formula for successful enterprise is actually quite simple: The establishment exploits the laws of supply and demand to charge high prices for the products it sells while profiting from its limited outlays to labor...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Stepping Into the Past | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

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