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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Ideas against AIDS

Viravaidya, aka “Mr. Condom,” has been battling AIDS for three decades and recently was awarded $1 million by the Gates Foundation for his work. As a visiting scholar at Harvard in the late 1980s, Viravaidya was frustrated by academia’s... View Details
Keywords: AIDS & HIV; activism; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • July 2009
  • Article

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Money
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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid

donors focusing on the countries where there are low levels of state effectiveness, where donors think their aid can truly make a difference. In those places, a full generation of development assistance, however clunky and encumbered,... View Details
Keywords: foreign aid; Government
  • October 2013
  • Article

The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

By: Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland and Eric Werker
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects... View Details
Keywords: World Bank; Aid Effectiveness; Political Influence; United Nations Security Council; International Finance; Prejudice and Bias; Outcome or Result; Projects; Government and Politics; Power and Influence
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  • October 2006
  • Article

How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations

By: Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric D. Werker
Ten of the fifteen seats on the U.N. Security Council are held by rotating members serving two-year terms. We find that a country's U.S. aid increases by 59 percent and its U.N. aid by 8 percent when it rotates onto the council. This effect increases during years in... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Governance; Value
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  • November 2009 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
Dedicated to accelerating the development of a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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  • 04 Feb 2015
  • Video

Financial Aid International Students

  • 13 Nov 2018
  • Video

Financial Aid Webinar

  • 13 Oct 2017
  • Video

Financial Aid at HBS

  • January 2019
  • Case

First Aid Beauty

By: Karen Mills and Annie Dang
In 2008, Lilli Gordon, an experienced financial and skincare entrepreneur, founded First Aid Beauty (FAB). She had discovered a white space in the prestige beauty market: high-end skin solutions that were suitable for sensitive skin. After initial success through... View Details
Keywords: Prestige Beauty; Skincare; Preferred Shares; Common Stock; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 04 Feb 2015
  • Video

Financial Aid Domestic Students

    How Is Foreign Aid Spent?

    We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on... View Details

    • 06 Apr 2020
    • News

    Visual Aids

    Keywords: entrepreneurship; Finance; education; communication
    • 16 Jun 2023
    • Video

    MBA Admissions & Financial Aid

    • 21 Oct 2010
    • News

    D.I.Y. Foreign Aid

    Keywords: hygiene; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • Video

    Financial Aid Resources at HBS

    • 12 May 2021
    • News

    Aid from Afar

    article in The Harvard Gazette. So Badgaiyan teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for health and View Details
    Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
    • 13 Nov 2018

    Financial Aid Webinar

    Learn about the MBAid Journey and the many financial aid options for entering students with a member of the Financial Aid team. View Details
    • 13 Oct 2017

    Financial Aid Webinar

    Join MBA Admissions and Financial Aid team members online as we go over the Financial Aid process at HBS and answer questions from participants. View Details
    • 21 Dec 2016

    Financial Aid Webinar

    The webinar will begin at 4pm EST. MBA Admissions team members will go over the Financial Aid process at HBS and answer questions from participants. To join the meeting, please click on the title link above. Once on the log-in page,... View Details