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...merger activity, Taylor insists that Continental still hopes to remain independent. "That is our top priority," he said, "and we are aggressively pursuing that option." A bank task force nicknamed Operation Bootstrap has been devising strategies. One possibility: sell Continental's $2.3 billion in bad loans to investor groups and pump the cash back into the bank...
...recommendation issued yesterday by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) that Harvard divest its holdings in companies operating in South Africa or, failing that, make broad changes in its investment policies represents a substantial realignment of the committee's conception of Harvard's responsibilities as an investor in the apartheid state...
...evaluate the affirmative employment practices of those companies in which Harvard holds stock the CCSR has relied on the annual Sullivan Principle reports prepared by Arthur D. Little, Inc., the Investor Responsibility Research Center South Africa Review Service publications, and correspondence with companies that do business in South Africa. The Sullivan Principles are six principles originally developed to guide American-owned companies operating in South Africa. For a signatory company to be rated by Arthur D. Little, Inc., which monitors implementation of the Sullivan Principles, it must meet nine basic requirements with respect to nonsegregation of facilities, equal and fair...
...extent consistent with its role as an independent university. Harvard should support governmental initiatives to end apartheid and seek in its role as investor to persuade portfolio companies to accept such initiatives...
...pictures, print-only television commercials, Shearson/American Express calls itself the stockbroker for the "serious investor." Last week the firm did some serious investing of its own. Only ten days after he had read in FORTUNE that Wall Street's Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb might be for sale, Shearson Chairman Peter A. Cohen, 37, signed an agreement to buy the old-line investment banker for $360 million. The combined companies will be known as Shearson Lehman/American Express...