Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agreement put an end to any idea of a corporate merger between Harvard and Radcliffe, and the Trustees are determined to maintain their independence. The only real links between the two institutions are at the very highest levels. "It's strictly a corporate relationship--President Bok to President Horner," Wolfman says...
Faculty debates on the merger?" Gerald Holton, Malinckrodt Professor of Physics and Faculty member during the Faculty merger discussions, sounded bewildered, but amused. "They are a small part of my autobiography," he confessed...
Well, at least he remembers them. If Harvard Faculty ever composes its memoirs, more than likely the chapter on the 1969 and '70 merger debates will not make the final edition. Most of Holton's colleagues do not recall a debate ever taking place and the few who do, have only the vaguest notion what anyone said. Even John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the Faculty and often dubbed 'Harvard's unofficial historian,' knows he went to the meetings concerning the merger, but confesses uncomfortably, "I don't remember anything." James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, was also around...
Despite Faculty fuzziness on the subject, Faculty minutes and newspaper reports in the 1969-'70 academic year show that the merger did reach the floor of University Hall's faculty room...
...prospects for takeover or merger. In the real world auto market there will be associations, mergers and joint ventures by the hundreds. As for the rumor of a Chrysler-Volkswagen deal last summer, there was absolutely nothing to it. But if you ask me whether we are a prospect, the answer is yes. It would be a hell of an investment for someone. Sure, the balance sheet does not look good, but I am a great believer that if you buy a company, you buy its management and its future. And our management and our future products are Class...