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...over the summer that TheFacebook added Parker to its team. When Zuckerberg learned Parker was looking for a place to stay, he invited him to crash at Casa Facebook. Parker showed up with two earthly possessions, Zuckerberg says: a BMW 5-Series, which he had bought with stock from his second company, Plaxo, and a pair of “ridiculously nice speakers.” That...
Harvard, a Massachusetts tax-exempt institution, has publicly invested in some of the companies doing business with the Khartoum regime and thus is underwriting the genocide. Harvard’s publicly disclosed stock investments include holdings in Petrochina—a Chinese oil company with established ties to the government and genocide in Sudan—valued at almost $4 million. The full extent of Harvard’s investment in Sudan is unknown, because Harvard is required only to disclose its common stock holdings, which comprise only $3 billion out of an endowment worth $22 billion...
...globalization. We form organizations to “raise awareness,” but too often that’s where things stop. Fortunately, some students aren’t content to just complain. The recent call for seniors to boycott the Senior Gift until Harvard sells its stock in PetroChina is a rare and worthwhile attempt to get Harvard students...
...James H. Stock, Professor of Economics, Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...Like AT&T, NTT now finds itself beset by a variety of nimble competitors offering local and long-distance calling and Internet access at cheaper prices. In its most recent earnings statement, NTT reported a $6.7 billion profit but saw falling revenue in almost all of its businesses. Its stock price has dropped about a third since early last year. Indeed, in Japan, where there are today more mobile-phone numbers than there are fixed-line phones, POTS (plain old telephone service) is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Survival in the future depends upon phone companies' being able...