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...that “appropriate action” had been taken in the investigation, brushing aside charges that he mismanaged the Shleifer case by acting without consulting the committees that had investigated the matter.The seven-member Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), along with a three-member investigating subcommittee, scrutinized Shleifer??s purported role in conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by making private investments in the Russian economy while he helped advise a federally sponsored and Harvard-run aid program there.In recent weeks, however, Knowles’ silence on the matter has disturbed members...
...seven-member Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), along with a three-member investigating subcommittee, scrutinized Shleifer??s purported role in conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by making private investments in the Russian economy while he helped advise a federally sponsored and Harvard-run aid program there...
...Shleifer??s statement appeared to indicate that he would remain at Harvard as a professor. The individuals close to CPC members said it would be unlikely for Knowles to revoke Shleifer??s tenured teaching post—a move that would require the approval of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body...
While Shleifer was an undergraduate at Harvard, he was hired as a research assistant by Summers, then an MIT assistant professor, according to The Journal of Economic Perspectives. And prior to Shleifer??s appointment as the Jones professor, around the time that Shleifer??s once-and-future boss became Harvard’s president, Summers told Knowles that he “was concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard” because of Shleifer??s academic potential, according to a 2002 deposition given by Summers...
...certainly hasn’t been a rosy decade for Mr. Shleifer. The Crimson reported this year that the professor has had to mortgage his home to pay the first installment of the settlement. And the pending internal investigation casts a shadow over Shleifer??s future. But then again, no criminal case was ever filed, and Shleifer is back in the classroom this fall. And as for his reputation, a recent check at the University of Connecticut IDEAS project still puts Shleifer as the number one cited economist in the world...