Russia - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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... View Details

Keywords: by 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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Plato Malozemoff

Struggling to find a job during the depression, the Russian-born immigrant, accepted an entry level engineering position with Newmont in 1945. Nine short years later, Malozemoff took the helm of Newmont Mining that, at the time, was valued at $147 million. Through... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

26 Jun 2012
First Look

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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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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... View Details

27 Apr 2022
News

Following the Flow of Aid

and areas in Africa—some of which were already experiencing devastating drought and food insecurity—also rely on crops to flow from Russia and Ukraine. As the world's attention is understandably focused on Europe, people in Africa are... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Industrial Life Photograph Collection | Baker Library

to depict earlier scenes, possibly from the 1910s and 1920s. The majority of the photographs represent American businesses, but companies in Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia are also included. Industrial Life Photograph... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

May 2011
Supplement

Hermitage's Russian Quandary (B)

By: Eric Werker, Ray Fisman and Lauren Weber

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Russia

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December 2000 (Revised December 2001)
Case

Victor Semenov: A Journey From the Plan to the Market

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Pavel Sorokin

Keywords: Agribusiness; Privatization; Food; Policy; Russia

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2003
Chapter

National Strategy and National Money: Politics and the End of the Ruble Zone, 1991-94

By: Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: Government and Politics; Strategy; Money; Policy; International Relations; Currency; Russia

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07 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Eurasia

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal; Energy; Utilities

September 1996 (Revised October 1996)
Case

Private Equity Investment in Russia: Alliance Cellulose Limited

By: Andre F. Perold, James Gray and Roberto Mignone

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Russia

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13 Nov 2003
Other Presentation

Russian Competitiveness: Where Do We Stand?

By: Michael E. Porter

Competitiveness presentation delivered at the U.S.-Russian Investment Symposium, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Boston, MA. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Russia

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