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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Staying Afloat
foreign investors or foreign capital. In 1991, due in large part to defaults on payments by customers in the Soviet Union and other crumbling communist economies, the shipyard found itself $260 million in...
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- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all...
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by Michael Blanding
- February 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Russia 1994
Describes Russia's transition from a centrally planned economy under Communist rule to an increasingly market-oriented economy under a more democratic political regime. Can be used to discuss the complementarity of elements of an economic strategy, and the optimal...
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Dyck, Alexander. "Russia 1994." Harvard Business School Case 795-089, February 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- October 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A) and (B)
By: Juan Alcácer
The teaching plan to accompany "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)," HBS No. 713-430; "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)," HBS No. 713-471. It is divided into an introduction, followed by three discussion...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Unlike the culture-shocked Russian who defected to America in the movie Moscow on the Hudson, Lithuanian-born Herman Safin arrived at HBS already familiar with the ways of the West. Beginning with his high-school years in the former View Details
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Amy E. Dean
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
cooperation among countries, as we've seen in some of these post-Soviet cases. Q: You've written about how different countries in the former Soviet Union have reacted toward or against Russia. What about...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary...
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Leo Markel
U.S. granted us refugee status and we moved from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without this move and my family's toils, my prospects would have been very different. Recognizing that there are billions of people...
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- February 1991 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Henderson Home Products: USSR Joint Venture
Yoshino, Michael Y. "Henderson Home Products: USSR Joint Venture." Harvard Business School Case 391-129, February 1991. (Revised January 1992.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
says of his twelve-year stint in Japan and Germany. "My first marriage was to a Russian woman, so I also got to know the Soviet Union very well." He returned to the United States in 1989, when the eldest of...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet View Details
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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Eastern European Teachers Program participants, July 20, 1992.Francis J. Aguilar Papers (GA 2.25).Download the Letter to Central and Eastern European Teachers Program participants. Global Reach: Body 2 After the collapse of the Soviet...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman (University of North Carolina Press) The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
Nazi Germany finally seemed to be in sight. In June 1944, Allied troops had come ashore on the beaches of Normandy, pushing the Axis forces east as the Soviet Union forced them west. In late August, Allied...
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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
2 (2005): 7-26 Customers in business-to-business transactions in the Soviet Union were dominated by suppliers who were in such superior positions that the situation facing customers might have been described...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
we don’t acknowledge them, we’re in for trouble. Convergence is the theory that all nations will eventually gravitate toward some form of capitalist, democratic free enterprise. When former State Department policy planner Francis Fukuyama described the collapse of the...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
day in the Soviet Union (Chiang Ching-kuo) and Germany (Chiang Wei-kuo and Tai An-kuo). Times change. Today there is no shortage of American families who send their children to China. As Chinese universities...
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- 2001
- Chapter
The Two Chinas in the Global Setting: Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Cooperation in the 1950s
By: William C. Kirby
Kirby, William C. "The Two Chinas in the Global Setting: Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Cooperation in the 1950s." In Re-examining the Cold War: U.S. China Diplomacy, 1954-1973, edited by Robert Ross, 25–46. Cambridge: Harvard University, Asia Center, 2001.
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in the former Soviet Union and Europe since the late 1960s until the end of the 1990s; sketches the story of the creation of Gazprom by the first post-Soviet government of Russia; and describes how the...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
Snook: Our world changed in 1989. The Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. Almost fifty years of living in a bipolar world had shaped a very strong and static sense of professional identity...
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by Martha Lagace