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It’s not a surprise for most Harvard students to hear of the diversity of the University endowment’s investments: over $3 billion in the stock market, entire forests in New Zealand, real estate and other assets galore totaling some $22.6 billion. Yet the University’s stock in a Chinese firm doing business with the government in Sudan is raising some eyebrows on campus, and with good reason. As of June 30 of this year, Harvard owned 72,000 shares valued at about $3.87 million in an oil company named PetroChina—almost...
...serious problem of racial profiling can never be solved unless its extent is known. As the head of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union noted, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Forcing reluctant towns to take stock of the actions of their police department for a set amount of time is a reasonable first step...
While online services may get better with Silverman and Diller driving the industry, don't look for a price war that would make travel a lot less expensive. "They will compete intelligently," says Haverty. "Price cutting is not how you get Wall Street to give you" a higher stock price. IAC shares have lagged as investors at first puzzled over Diller's plan and then were disappointed with financial results that fell short of big expectations. Cendant has performed better. But some investors haven't forgotten a disastrous acquisition and accounting scandal six years...
Marsh is paying dearly for not playing nice with Spitzer, whose anticorruption crusades in recent years have targeted top executives at Wall Street investment banks, mutual-fund companies, pharmaceutical firms and the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.). In a civil suit filed in New York state court last week, Spitzer charged Marsh with a price-fixing and kickback scheme that inflated the cost of insurance for clients ranging from the Greenville County School District in South Carolina to companies like Fortune Brands. According to Spitzer, roughly $800 million of the $1.5 billion in net income Marsh earned last year came...
Marsh, whose stock sank 24% on the news, said it has been cooperating with Spitzer since spring but had not been made aware of the charges until last week, when it agreed to stop taking the payments and replaced the head of the business unit involved in the allegations. In a statement, Marsh said it was "committed to getting all the facts, determining any incidence of improper behavior, and dealing appropriately with any wrongdoing." Separately, the company's independent directors expressed confidence in the firm's leadership. Marsh declined to comment further to TIME. But the attorney general...