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  • 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 memory from that time was of... View Details
Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • News

Russia, China, and the Third World

    Jeremy S. Friedman

    Jeremy S. Friedman is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit and taught the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum over the past six years. Currently, he is teaching Business and... View Details

      Mattias E. Fibiger

      Mattias Fibiger is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) Unit. A historian by training, he conducts research on Asia's twentieth century. He teaches in the Business, Government, and... View Details
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      By: Mattias E. Fibiger
      Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

      Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
      • 02 Jan 2023
      • News

      H-Diplo Roundtable XXIV-15 on Friedman, Ripe for Revolution

      • 28 Apr 2016
      • News

      Health Care Dominates HBS Startup Comp

        Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

        A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

        In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
        • 2022
        • Book

        Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

        By: Jeremy Friedman
        A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

        In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
        Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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        • October 1993 (Revised December 1997)
        • Case

        General Dynamics: Compensation and Strategy (A)

        William Anders became CEO of defense giant General Dynamics in 1991 as the Cold War was ending and as the industry became saddled with excess capacity. Observing that the company was underserving shareholders and required a massive change in its culture, Anders brought... View Details
        Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Executive Compensation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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        • January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
        • Case

        Henry Luce and the American Century

        By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox
        Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details
        Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States
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        By: Jeremy S. Friedman
        Professor Friedman devotes his research to the history of the Left and its struggle to end economic and social inequality. He studies how this struggle evolved, its various cultural contexts, and what paths have been tried and rejected. He has been able to gain access... View Details
        • 2000
        • Working Paper

        The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

        By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
        In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details
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        • 12 Aug 2002
        • Op-Ed

        Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

        loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the... View Details
        Keywords: by George C. Lodge
        • 2021
        • Working Paper

        Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes

        By: Pedro Bordalo, Marco Tabellini and David Yang
        U.S. voters exaggerate the differences in attitudes held by Republicans and Democrats on a range of socioeconomic and political issues, and higher perceived polarization is associated with greater political engagement and affective polarization. In this paper, we... View Details
        Keywords: Politics; Stereotypes; Belief Distortions; Model; Government and Politics; Public Opinion; Values and Beliefs
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        • December 2013
        • Case

        Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)

        By: James K. Sebenius
        Isolated by the KGB in Moscow, Harvard graduate student Bruce Allyn faces high-pressure negotiation tactics to recruit him for the Soviet spy agency. At the tense height of the Cold War, with CIA agents systematically being exposed and executed in Russia, Allyn was... View Details
        Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
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        • December 2013
        • Supplement

        Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)

        By: James K. Sebenius
        This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
        Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
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          Chip Bergh

          Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

          • Web

          Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

          through Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Continued isolationism Influence: High 40 1940 19 War Production Board readies nation for WWII U.S. becomes a global power Creation of IMF and World Bank Marshall Plan Cold... View Details
          • 29 Apr 2014
          • First Look

          First Look: April 29

          faces high-pressure negotiation tactics to recruit him for the Soviet spy agency. At the tense height of the Cold War, with CIA agents systematically being exposed and executed in Russia, Allyn was participating in an unusual joint... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne