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...Sachs became head of the KSG's new, more research-oriented Center for International Development. Last summer he resigned the directorship of HIID, saying he wanted to spend more time on his new position...
Harvard's decision to dissolve the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), following the advice of a University task force report that summed up a six-month-long review, was the correct one. The administration can now redirect the resources and staff of HIID toward benefiting the students of Harvard University...
...HIID grew out of the work of Harvard's Development Advisory Service (1962-1974), and earlier projects involving Harvard advisors in international development. The institute itself was created in 1974 to coordinate Harvard's program for assistance, training, and research in the developing world. The institute had 20 overseas offices and 25 more international programs headquartered in Cambridge and an annual budget of over $34 million--more than some of Harvard's graduate schools. Unwieldy and hard to manage, HIID had been tarnished in recent years by allegations of scandal and corruption in Russia...
...HIID got into trouble when, in May 1997, the U.S. government cancelled a $57 million grant to HIID in Russia, headed by Professor of Economics Andre Shleifer '82, and the U.S. Attorney's office began an investigation into allegations that HIID invested in Russian securities while advising the Russian government on economic policy. The investigation is ongoing...
Furthermore, most HIID staff do research but do not pass it on to students, graduate or undergraduate, and therefore do not contribute directly to the education of Harvard students. International consulting may have been hard to come by 40 years ago; today, these projects, in and of themselves, do not serve Harvard's best interest...