Since 2010, the movement for fossil fuel divestment, started by 350.org, has persuaded 180 institutions, worth $50bn£33bnbn) to divest, with Stanford University in the US, Glasgow University in the UK and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund among the most notable.
Instead, it should be taking an inventory of revenue-producing public assets — including on-street and off-street parking systems, water systems, toll bridges, solid waste disposal plants, utilities and airports — to lease or divest with help from private partners willing to invest capital in improving them.
Mr. Pez said that the company needed to sell assets to pay debt, but that "it's quite tricky" to divest businesses with credit markets tight.
As the campaign has grown, it has become more global, with institutions divesting from Sweden to New Zealand to the Marshall islands in the Pacific.
"It would be difficult for Yahoo to get fair market value on these assets given the environment in which they would be divesting," Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, wrote when speculation surfaced that Yahoo might seek a deal.
They enable merging firms to reconfigure their businesses, by which we mean adding, redeploying, recombining, or divesting assets and resources with the goal of strengthening the resource base (Karim and Capron 2016).
Another deterrent for some academic cancer researchers may be that they would have to accept a sharp pay cut and sever any ties to drug companies, including divesting stocks, to comply with strict NIH ethics rules.
With Rupert Murdoch divesting from the Web in general and shifting focus from paywalls to iPad publications, it's unlikely that News Corp. will ante up much for online video.
Nonproliferation -- preventing states that don't currently possess nuclear weapons -- works in tandem with disarmament -- states with nuclear weapons divesting themselves of same.
It began with numerous institutional investors divesting their holdings, citing Broadspectrum's association with gross human rights abuses.
