Adviser pressures Harvard with talk of probe before Toshiba vote

TOKYO: A Japanese government adviser told the Harvard University endowment fund that its vote at Toshiba Corp’s annual shareholders meeting could be subject to a regulatory probe should it vote against the firm’s management, four sources said.

As a result, the US university abstained from voting, three of the sources said. It later learnt there was no basis for any probe, two of them said.