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...founded in 1998, as a center affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, at a time when Sachs was chair of then-troubled Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID). HIID was beset with controversy over the alleged wrongdoing of two of its affiliates working on its Russia project—a case that is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit by the U.S. government...
...While HIID provided consulting services to the developing world, CID was intended to be the research arm of the University’s efforts at development studies...
...Attorney’s office released hundreds of pages of evidence in support of its allegation that Shleifer defrauded the government of millions of dollars while he advised Russia in its transition to capitalism as part of a program operated by the now-defunct Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...Attorney’s office contends that Shleifer had engaged in unethical behavior and breached agreements with the government by investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian companies while he was managing U.S. government aid, which was being funneled to the Russian government through HIID...
While the administration said the decision had nothing to do with the federal government’s investigation of HIID, the committee’s report said that “overseeing a large number of advisory projects located throughout the world” had become a “formidable challenge” for Harvard...