Harvard Students, HEI Hotel Workers Score Mutual Victory

From In These Times By: David Moberg | April 11, 2012 As undergraduate students at Harvard, Devi Lockwood and Jia Hui Lee would typically have little reason to know Rosa de la Rosa or Heather Nichols, who work just a few miles from Harvard Yard cleaning...

Princeton Joins Growing Number of Ivy Leagues To End Investments In HEI Hospitality

Feb. 23, 2012 In a Princeton Resource Committee meeting, President of Princeton University Investment Company, Andrew Golden, stated that the University would no longer reinvest in private-equity hotelier, HEI Hospitality, citing business considerations....

UNITE HERE Commends Yale’s End To Investments In HEI Hospitality

November, 29 2011 UNITE HERE, the hospitality workers union, commends Yale University for its decision not to reinvest in private-equity hotelier, HEI Hospitality.  Earlier this year, Brown University announced that it will not reinvest in HEI until...

Students Take on Private Equity Fund HEI

From The Nation By: Micah Uetricht Jan. 12, 2012 Managers of university investments, like most managers of huge piles of money, typically do not like being told what to do with their riches—particularly when demands are coming from, say, student activists...

Harvard’s Crimson Urges Administration to Rethink Reinvestment in HEI

From The Harvard Crimson In light of the controversy surrounding HEI’s treatment of its workers, Harvard’s administration should consider halting further investment in HEI. This is especially true if current allegations of labor rights abuses are...