Business
Harvard University has sold the stock it owned in companies that manufacture tobacco products because of the dangers of smoking.
May 23, 1990
Archives
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education, Derek Bok, Princeton University Press: 256 pp., $22.95 The University in a Corporate Culture, Eric Gould, Yale University Press: 243 pp., $35
July 13, 2003
Jewel Plummer Cobb is a woman very much in demand.
March 17, 1988
ChevronTexaco is giving $5 million to USC to develop new technologies for recovering fossil fuels. Is this the ‘corporatization’ of academia?
Dec. 14, 2003
Burbank-based World Title Co. has made two executive promotions: Thomas Hooker has been named senior vice president and manager of its Los Angeles County operations and Doug Howry has been named manager of operations for Orange, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
May 28, 1989
World & Nation
Talk about inflation--between 1970 and 1990, the number of people in the United States reporting adjusted gross incomes of more than a million dollars increased by nearly 9,500%, from 642 to 60,677.
Dec. 17, 1993
National Medical Enterprises, once the darling of Wall Street and one of the country’s most profitable health-care corporations, is facing allegations of fraud and unethical marketing in some of its hospitals, reflecting a toughening environment for the entire health-care industry as insurers and government authorities try to crack down on costs.
Oct. 11, 1991
Robert C.
Feb. 18, 1989
Tulsa, Okla.
July 28, 1998
Times are tough, resources are scarce and office politics can be vicious. You need an edge.
March 4, 1993