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Harvard will not conduct an internal investigation into a scandal involving Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) that may cost the University $14 million in government grants, Provost Albert Carnesale said last week...
...Agency for International Development, which administers a program to aid Russian development, released the preliminary findings of a report accusing two employees of HIID, Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan R. Hay, an HIID associate, of using the institute's resources for their own personal gain...
Carnesale said Shleifer will remain in his position as a tenured professor, although he has been relieved of his HIID responsibilities. Dale W. Jorgenson, the outgoing chair of the economics department, declined to comment on the situation...
Officials said HIID is being caught in a political showdown. Shleifer said he was being unfairly targeted, adding that he was caught "in the middle of a battle between Russian politicians...
...HIID's activities are closely aligned with Anatoly Chubais, who served as Boris N. Yeltsin's first deputy prime minister until he was fired last year and placed on Harvard's payroll briefly, Wedel said...