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...days, was a far better alternative to other approaches of days past. In the late 90s, the aforementioned Dean Epps considered each space request personally, leaving groups in the dark about the criteria he used. McLoughlin’s committee stuck to its guidelines, even if some of its decisions??like giving the Harvard Dems and Republicans the smallest offices available—seem ludicrous.But McLoughlin’s successes cannot hide his conspicuous failure to fix the student group space problem at Harvard. The fact that the space allocation committee needed to group many student organizations together...
...conditions or practices of an immoral nature.”Last April, Bok’s views were cited by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)—a group of students and faculty that advises the Corporation, Harvard’s highest body, on investment decisions??when it recommended that Harvard sell its holdings in Beijing-based PetroChina. The oil firm has been accused of facilitating the ongoing genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.But did the ACSR accurately synthesize Bok’s views? In an interview last spring, Bok declined to weigh...
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...
This of course doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t ask other people for advice. Checking in with others who have had similar experiences is important. And thinking through your decisions thoroughly—especially when they’re big decisions??is also important. But you will never escape the ultimate end result: you eventually have to decide...
...myself,” O’Hagan said. “It’s the biggest stage I’ve played on in my whole life. I’m surrounded by such good players I just wanted to go out there and make good decisions?...