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...fired from the University in 1997. Shleifer was removed from HIID but remained on the Faculty...
Shleifer, then a project director for the now-defunct Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), was accused by the government in 1997 of making private investments in Russia through family while administering the HIID Russia project under a pair of contracts from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) totalling $57.8 million...
...their client had not technically been “assigned to” Russia and was therefore not bound by the conflict-of-interest provision. Though Shleifer’s title was project director, he conducted most his work from an office at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in Cambridge...
...book also suffers by association with Shleifer’s now infamous activities as an advisor to former President Boris Yeltsin for the Harvard Initiative for International Development (HIID). Shleifer allegedly invested indirectly in Russian companies affected by the policies he proposed, and Shleifer has since been sued by the U.S. government. He never makes more than oblique references to his work in Russia after the 1997 currency crisis, a point that will surely disappoint readers looking for the defendant’s perspective in the ongoing scandal...
Corporation Senior Fellow and Chair of the Joint Committee on Inspections James R. Houghton ’58 said the University’s actions on the Kanki grant were not related to the HIID investigation...