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...Apple able to do things most other companies can't? Partly by charging for it: The iPhone will cost $499 for a 4GB model, $599 for 8GB, which makes it expensive, but not a luxury item. And partly because the company has highly diverse talent who are good at hardware, software, industrial design and Internet services. Most companies just do one or two things well...
However, there is a more effective way to ensure this happens than to rely on The Crimson to be Harvard’s moral and financial watchdog. Students from the Harvard Darfur Action Group are currently working with the nationwide Sudan Divestment Taskforce to propose a targeted divestment model, like the one recently adopted by the state of California and taken up by other universities, including the University of California. If implemented, the targeted model would secure Harvard’s good reputation on this issue once...
Under the model, Harvard would commit to screening out the "worst-offending’"companies from any current and future investments. In order to fall into this category, a company must meet all of the following criteria: They must have a business relationship with the Sudanese government or be involved in a government-created project, fail to benefit civilians outside of the government, fail to implement a substantial corporate governance policy regarding the genocide, and fail to respond to attempts at shareholder engagement. In other words, it is a high...
...implementation of this model would not require any substantive policy change from the position Harvard adopted when it decided to divest from its direct holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec back in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Both those decisions were made on the grounds that Harvard should not be supporting companies with proven complicity in a situation that the U.S. government has determined to be genocide—in other words, companies that meet the "worst offending" criteria. Furthermore, there is precedent for this approach. During the mid-1980s, Harvard started screening the "worst-offending" companies operating in South Africa under...
...long as the current ad hoc approach to Darfur-related divestment remains in place, we can expect to see the incoming Harvard president make similarly blinkered statements, which will ultimately undermine Harvard’s good standing on this issue. By contrast, the implementation of a targeted divestment model as a matter of policy provides a way out of this bind and creates a win for all involved...