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Patience is not always the best tactic for corporate chieftains to use when they are fighting those who wish to oust them, but it seems to have worked for Time Warner chairman Richard Parsons in his battle against Carl Icahn. In August, Icahn and a group of investors launched a bid to split up the Time Warner media empire (which includes Time Inc., publisher of this magazine). But Icahn could not win the support of key shareholders, who balked at his plan to oust Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons...
...ills are not the result of the actions of “a few bad [corporate] apples,” but rather the product of a generally problematic system. Thus, insofar as ethical consumerism’s effects are limited to these figureheads, as a general tactic it is clearly insufficient...
...first type of divestment demand is first and foremost a tactic used by organizers to manufacture an opportunity to talk about the actual issues. In this light, Summers did the petition-circulators an immense favor: he catapulted a hopeless divestment call from obscure e-mail lists to the pages of The New York Times. Summers likely did this to establish in the national press a strong test for discrimination with respect to anti-Semitism. (Summers, notably, would never support such strong a test for discrimination on any other issue.) He harnessed the same power of the divestment demand that...
...adding a no-confidence motion to the Feb. 28 Faculty meeting’s agenda, Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, is using a tactic from parliamentary systems and applying it to Harvard governance. But if Harvard were to follow parliamentary confidence-vote procedures to their full extent, then Ryan’s motion could cause the dissolution of the Faculty itself. In the United Kingdom and other parliamentary democracies, prime ministers who lose no-confidence votes have two options. “A government cannot operate effectively unless it can command a majority within...
...tactic is to be like George Bush’s weapons of mass destruction,” quipped Eric P. Lesser ’07, the president of the Democrats, “Silent, deadly, and hard to find...