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...decision comes nine months after Harvard, in response to student pressure, voted to sell its stake in Beijing oil firm PetroChina, which is controlled by the China National Petroleum Corporation...
Those stocks include energy company Royal Dutch Shell, oil field services firm Schlumberger Ltd., Russian oil company AO Tatneft, and oil firm China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec...
...University of Kent sociology professor, says that companies may ultimately be more hurt than helped if they try to make over their public image too aggressively, because they risk repudiating who and what they really are. "BP is spending billions to change its image, saying 'we are not a petroleum company.' They've lost belief in what they are doing and are trying to be something else. But in doing so they discredit the foundation on which they were built," Furedi says. "They are building a destabilizing dynamic that's going to blow up in their face...
...expensive, ad-filled election season is expected to inundate the country with $750 million in spending. AMLO's allies are already likening him to the successful and clearly left-wing candidates in other parts of Latin America, for example, saying he will emulate Chavez's skillful management of petroleum revenues to restart the economy; imitate Brazil's President Lula da Silva in achieving consensus with Mexico's labor unions; follow the lead of Bolivia's Morales in coming to terms with the country's Indian population; and from Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner, he will learn to confront the International...
...owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chávez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol of the Latin American masses--and as a model for other populist leaders in the region, although few have his petroleum resources to use as a cudgel...