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Jacobellis' party prior to the finish was the only blemish on a near perfect week. The poster child for the boarders, her blond braids were featured in a ubiquitous pre-Olympics Visa ad, where a nervous Jacobellis can't focus until her coach tells her to pretend that someone stole her check card. Cute. One problem--no card will buy her way out of this colossal embarrassment. "I can move on; it's just a race," she says. Just stay away from the replays...
Joanne Bradford is what Microsoft looks like when it gets serious. Bill Gates says he's committed to taking some of Google's $6.1 billion in online ad revenue, and he has named Bradford, 42, head of Microsoft's new global sales unit to do it. "I'm not afraid of anything, much less Google," says Bradford, formerly in charge of North American sales. She has already bulked up her sales staff by 100 and will soon roll out a new system to target ads. Bradford is also personally prepared for the hard road ahead: she just bought antiwrinkle cream...
While Harvard has a long tradition of morally responsible investing decisions—including its decisions to divest from Angola’s oil industry, apartheid South Africa, and tobacco stock—all these decisions were made on an ad hoc basis. This “Bok system” has several problems. First, the “exceptional circumstances” criteria for divestment forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur...
...campus debate over investments in apartheid South Africa in 1972. While the ACSR research was valuable in prompting the PetroChina decision, they hold little real power—they can only make recommendations and primarily focus on shareholder votes, not screenings of investments. Overall, the Bok standard of ad hoc ethical decision-making—adopted in reaction to student protests over investments in Apartheid—is a formula for managing public relations crises, not a coherent set of guidelines...
Visitors to Tradesports.com yesterday were greeted with a banner ad that read, “Larry Summers in Hot Water Again!?,” next to images of the Harvard insignia and of Summers’ head hovering above a boiling cauldron...