{"id":648,"date":"2014-04-15T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=648"},"modified":"2014-04-15T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:33:16","slug":"harvard-takes-a-step-toward-social-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2014\/04\/15\/harvard-takes-a-step-toward-social-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Takes a Step Toward Social Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20140408\/ONLINE\/140409885\/harvard-adopts-un-backed-esg-investment-practices\">http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20140408\/ONLINE\/140409885\/harvard-adopts-un-backed-esg-investment-practices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw this article the other day about Harvard University and their endowment manager&#8217;s (Harvard Management Co.) decision to join the global group known as Principles for Responsible Investment. This decision seems to be a pinnacle choice going forward in terms of the precedent it may set for university endowments to partake in socially and environmentally responsible initiatives. What I found interesting about what this article did not say is that last year, students petitioned to have HMC divest itself of some of its energy holdings as a means of being more &#8220;responsible.&#8221; Whether this decision to join PRI was a direct result of that student action may never be known, but it certainly raises an interesting issue going forward in terms of how universities choose to invest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20140408\/ONLINE\/140409885\/harvard-adopts-un-backed-esg-investment-practices Saw this article the other day about Harvard University and their endowment manager&#8217;s (Harvard Management Co.) decision to join the global group known as Principles for Responsible Investment. This decision seems to be a pinnacle choice going forward in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2014\/04\/15\/harvard-takes-a-step-toward-social-responsibility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}