HARVARD and Prof Liable for Fraud (news item)

Colleges & Universities Harvard University
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<p>Upwards of $140 million in damages due to some serious ethical violations. I guess Shleifer is truly a “star” professor. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article508174.html[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article508174.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ok, Yale’s-Byerly :)</p>

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<p>Forget not what Harvard did to Russia…Oh, does this need its own thread? :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=19980601&s=wedel[/url]”>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=19980601&s=wedel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“Harvard University has agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle a civil complaint about investments that an economics professor and a former staff member made while working on a federal contract to help privatize Russia’s post-Soviet economy, prosecutors said Wednesday… Harvard could have been liable for up to $120 million in damages if the case had gone to trial.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/education/04harvard.html?[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/education/04harvard.html?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;