Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday that because of the small amount of private funding and its similarity to government and foundation money, "there is not any legitimate question as to the labs' tax-exempt status...
According to a Boston Globe article, Fouraker "reacted bitterly" to the story and "threatened to cut off a textbook subsidiary of Dow Jones from free use of Harvard Business School cases." (Dow Jones publishes the Wall Street Journal.) The article also stated that Fouraker "asked Harvard General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 to call Dow Jones's outside attorneys...
Neither Fouraker nor Irvin L. Grimes, president of the Jones subsidiary, would comment on the article. Steiner, however, termed the story "inaccurate." "Dean Fouraker never asked me to contact the Dow Jones outside lawyers," he said, adding, "I knew the lawyers personally and thought of speaking to them strictly in that sense, but I never did actually contact them. And certainly no legal action like a law suit was ever considered...
...press has blown this way out of proportion," Steiner, said and Raiffa agrees. Of the many articles written about his course, Raiffa approves of only two: one an interview in last week's Harvard Gazette, and the other a Globe story by Charles L. Whipple. "The Whipple article pointed up errors in the Journal article and said the press, in this case, was wrong," said Raiffa. "That's a very gracious step to take...
...Steiner said that the meeting was only one of several scheduled with student groups. "I think he chose to speak to CHUL because there are both students and masters there," Steiner added...