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<text id=89TT3354>
<title>
Dec. 25, 1989: Business Notes:Marketing
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 25, 1989 Cruise Control:Tom Cruise
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 69
Business Notes
MARKETING
Seat of Higher (L)earning
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<p> Harvard University, whose business school has long been a
training ground for some of the nation's top corporate minds,
has decided that it will no longer give away its profitable
name gratis. By January 1991, companies that produce everything
from sweat shirts to chairs to coffee mugs emblazoned with the
name Harvard, the university coat of arms or the motto VERITAS
(truth) will have to pay for the privilege. Despite an endowment
of some $4.5 billion, the oldest U.S. university can always find
uses for an extra $500,000 a year, the amount that the trademark
license could eventually produce.
</p>
<p> Harvard tested its product appeal during its 350th
anniversary in 1986, and has looked closely at trademark
possibilities in Japan. The take from anniversary merchandise
was about $50,000, and for the past three years items led by a
Harvard University line of menswear have generated $130,000
annually in royalties in Japan. Harvard would like to license
a maximum of 100 U.S. companies to produce merchandise.
</p>
</body></article>
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