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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
- 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
Werker, Eric D., Faisal Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen. "How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 1, no. 2 (July 2009): 225–244. (Reprinted in Geopolitics of Foreign Aid, ed. Helen Milner and Dustin Tingley. Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2013.)
- 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
- 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
Dreher, Axel, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland, and Eric Werker. "The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?" Economic Development and Cultural Change 62, no. 1 (October 2013).
- 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
Kuziemko, Ilyana, and Eric D. Werker. "How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations." Journal of Political Economy 114, no. 5 (October 2006): 905–930. (Reprinted in Geopolitics of Foreign Aid, ed. Helen Milner and Dustin Tingley. Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2013.)
- 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
Grossman, Allen S., and Cathy Ross. "International AIDS Vaccine Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 310-015, November 2009. (Revised January 2011.)
- 13 Nov 2018
- Video
Financial Aid Webinar
- 04 Feb 2015
- Video
Financial Aid International Students
- 13 Oct 2017
- Video
Financial Aid at HBS
- 04 Feb 2015
- Video
Financial Aid Domestic Students
- 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
Mills, Karen, and Annie Dang. "First Aid Beauty." Harvard Business School Case 319-082, January 2019.
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
- 16 Jun 2023
- Video
MBA Admissions & Financial Aid
- 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
- 04 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid
- February 1985
- Case
U.S. AID Indonesia
Timmer, C. Peter, and Victor S. Limlingan. "U.S. AID Indonesia." Harvard Business School Case 385-195, February 1985.
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette