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Stephen Saint John Hall came to Harvard in the summer of 1971 as part of President Bok's original team of vice presidents. He was 36 years old, director of operations support for the Sheraton division of ITT, and dissatisfied with corporate America, when he got the call to take over Harvard's administrative side...
Stephen Saint John Hall came to Harvard in the summer of 1971 as part of President Bok's original team of vice presidents. He was 36 years old, director of operations support for the Sheraton division of ITT, and dissatisfied with corporate America, when he got the call to take over Harvard's administrative side...
...Chilean socialist and the American union bureaucrat were both pointing to the same phenomenon: the growing domination of the world economy over the past two decades by multinational corporations--giant firms with operations scattered all over the world. Multinationals, such as ITT, Anaconda Copper, IBM, and General Electric, coordinate production, distribution, and sales on a global scale rather than within the confines of a specific national economy. Consequently, their commitment to any particular country in which they operate is limited to the ways that country can serve as a means to its ultimate ends--the maximation of the overall profits...
...technological know-how for the job, Paris has turned to two foreign firms, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph and Sweden's LM Ericsson. Through a series of complex deals, Thomson-CSF, a big French electronics company (1975 sales: $2.7 billion), will acquire the French subsidiaries of ITT and Ericsson, thus gaining access to their technology and expertise. ITT and Ericsson, in turn, will receive big payments for their subsidiaries as well as large licensing and engineering fees. If Giscard's plan proceeds on schedule, the French level of service should be close to that...
Although he regrets leaving his Harvard post. Hall said he told President Bok when he came to Harvard in 1971, that he would stay five years. Before coming to Harvard. Hall was director of operations support for ITT Sheraton Corporation...