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Harvard finally modeled its own ACSR on similar committees founded as early as 1971 at several other colleges. Since other institutions found the committees "useful and productive," Harvard created the ACSR to obtain the community's views on shareholder issues, says Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to President Bok. Farber is Bok's liason to the ACSR and the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility...
...Farber is deeply involved in helping foundations and other universities to decide their positions on proxy resolutions. He created the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) this year to provide what Farber says will be "objective, timely, in-depth exposition of the facts and issues involved in public interest shareholder proposals...
...advocates' objections to IRRC's role are "absurd," Farber said in an interview. "We are not in competition. The excellent feedback we've been getting proves we're performing a service that institutions want and that existing groups simply can't perform," Farber said...
...addition, Farber says he believes that rather than closing trustees' doors to proxy advocates, IRRC has aroused interest in shareholder issues which some voters would otherwise lack the time or interest to study...
...Corporation committee's reasoning was "substantially" the same as the ACSR's, according to Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to President Bok and the Administration's liaison with both groups...