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Bionade's founders don't dream of global conquest for its own sake. They speak passionately about what they describe as the drink's deeper meaning. "Bionade is a totally idealistic product. Of course we want to make money, but honestly, this was an attempt to give people something better...
According to the most recent data provided by Barclays, the China fund had invested 8.4 percent of its assets in PetroChina and 4.2 percent in Sinopec, meaning that Harvard holds about $4.5 million of stock in PetroChina and $2.2 million in Sinopec through that arrangement.
Meanwhile, the emerging markets fund had invested 1.1 percent of its assets in PetroChina and 0.7 percent in Sinopec, meaning that Harvard holds another $5.8 million in PetroChina stock and $3.6 million in Sinopec through that mechanism.
It’s not outright sexism that motivates this bias, Van Ummersen says, but simply the tendency of well-meaning board members to choose people with whom they are comfortable—people like themselves.
Wielgus has become the most famous victim of a process known as "lustration" - a word meaning "purification" - that is under way across eastern Europe. Embraced as a political weapon by right-wing parties against their enemies, it is targeting anyone with even remote ties to the communist past. In Poland...