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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
monastery got under way. After four years of negotiations, the two parties reached an agreement in which the bells would be returned to Russia and replaced by a new set. But the church couldn’t finance the project alone. That’s when...
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Lee Shubert
Shubert and his brothers broke the Klaw-Erlanger Syndicate which controlled 95 percent of all theaters in the United States at the turn of the century. Beginning with a few theaters in New York and Connecticut, the Shuberts went on to build one of the largest theater...
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Harry M. Warner
After frustrating attempts to run a movie theater in Pennsylvania, Harry Warner and his three brothers moved to California, convinced that they would have to make movies themselves if they were to ever have success at showing them. Though the brothers struggled...
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David Sarnoff
Trained as an engineer, Sarnoff predicted that radio, and later, television, would transform the way people interacted with the world around them. Sarnoff lead RCA to become the leader in radio programming, offering services from news, sports, entertainment shows, and...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned home from Russia in 1998 with their adopted daughter, Christina, they brought with them a desire to make the process easier for other families. They created Pathways for Little...
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- Portrait Project
Nelya Nikonova
about discovering and improving the world, I left a familiar life in Russia and set off alone to study in America with just $20. My adventure turned out to be the American dream, a quilt of colorful patches: from living on a farm in...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Dateline Belgrade
this capacity, he became a frequent interlocutor between financial institutions in Russia and the West, particularly the IMF. Because the Russians felt that Milosevic was not comprehending NATO's position and demands, they brought in...
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- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
If you are an executive of a multinational looking for geographies in which to expand your markets, operations, and investments, is China more attractive than India? South Africa better than Mexico? Does Russia have more promise than the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Alexander Kamenskov
announcement in the news. Perestroika was proclaimed when I was born. Seven years of change, and my nation was still at a crossroads, yet again in civil unrest. On that day, shooting stopped. I was walking in the street with my parents feeling that new-born View Details
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Xenia Yashina
"If not us, then who?" – dad will ask, and mom will sigh, and agree I am very proud of what my people achieved in 1991 – they brought freedom to Russia. It is almost physically painful to realize that the effort was in vain, and my country is in even more...
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Igor I. Sikorsky
Sikorsky was a pioneer in the aircraft industry. The father of the helicopter, Sikorsky patented and flew the first helicopter in 1939. Revolutionizing the transport industry, Sikorsky Aircraft eventually supplied helicopters for both military and commercial purposes...
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Automotive & Aerospace
William Rosenthal
After discovering a need for the product in their dress making business, William and Ida Rosenthal created the “first modern uplift brassiere” in 1923. After the success of that item, business was expanded into lingerie, swimwear and other products, growing Maidenform...
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Fabric & Apparel
Alexander M. Poniatoff
Poniatoff, founder of Ampex, created many of the major innovations in commercial recording technology and produced the first US built magnetic audio tape recorder in 1948 revolutionizing the radio industry. After creating the standard for audio recording, Ampex...
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Computers & Electronics
- May 2011
- Supplement
Hermitage's Russian Quandary (B)
By: Eric Werker, Ray Fisman and Lauren Weber
Supplements the (A) case.
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Werker, Eric, Ray Fisman, and Lauren Weber. "Hermitage's Russian Quandary (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-055, May 2011.
- December 2000 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Victor Semenov: A Journey From the Plan to the Market
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Pavel Sorokin
Goldberg, Ray A., and Pavel Sorokin. "Victor Semenov: A Journey From the Plan to the Market." Harvard Business School Case 901-018, December 2000. (Revised December 2001.)
- 2003
- Chapter
National Strategy and National Money: Politics and the End of the Ruble Zone, 1991-94
By: Rawi Abdelal
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Government and Politics;
Strategy;
Money;
Policy;
International Relations;
Currency;
Russia
Abdelal, Rawi. "National Strategy and National Money: Politics and the End of the Ruble Zone, 1991-94." In Monetary Orders: Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics, edited by Jonathan Kirshner, 98–124. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew BirdHarvard Business School Case 312-070 A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as deputy managing director to turn around the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
Samuel M. Zemurray
Zemurray made his first fortune with the Honduras-based Cuyamel Fruit Company, and intended to retire when, in 1930, he sold the company to United Fruit in exchange for stock in the larger firm. A falling stock market, however, forced him out of retirement and he...
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Food & Tobacco
Nicholas M. Schenck
When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught of the Depression, though, Schenck’s attention to efficiency and to “the bottom...
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Louis B. Mayer
Mayer, known as the unchallenged “czar of Hollywood” for over a quarter of century, created one of the largest motion pictures companies in the world. After acquiring control over the largest chain of theatres in New England and creating his own distribution agency,...
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