Publications

Received the 2011 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. View Details

11 Jan 2021
News

Strengthening Democracy

University Professor Rebecca Henderson Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know. By Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. The Role of American Business Leaders in a Challenging Election Season... View Details

January 2002 (Revised March 2006)
Background Note

Democracy

Surveys scholarship on democracy and democratization. Describes the relationship between democracy and the environment of business, including capitalist economic institutions, economic growth, economic reform, and international relations. View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Situation or Environment; Business and Government Relations; Economic Growth; International Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

May 2001 (Revised October 2002)
Teaching Note

Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles? (TN)

Teaching Note for (9-701-076). View Details

Keywords: Russia

01 Apr 2011
News

My First HBS Class

network strategies. I also attended a first-year BGIE class taught by Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Rawi Abdelal, in which the students of Section H discussed “The U.S. Current... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

http://people.hbs.edu/dscharfstein/Articles/FT-Article_09-14-10.pdf Working PapersThe Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Europe and Eurasia Author:Rawi Abdelal An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (TN) (A) & (B)

Keywords: Banking Industry; Czech Republic

January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?

Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President Vladimir Putin faced in 2000. The first section provides a brief synopsis of liberalization, stabilization, and... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Public Sector; Privatization; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Russia

January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
Background Note

State, The

Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time. View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governance Compliance; Framework; Economic Sectors; Policy; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Development Economics; Equality and Inequality

01 Sep 2003
News

Globalization Revisited

of Markets” did change the character of debate among scholars and practitioners and established globalization as a lens through which to view the world. So said HBS assistant professor Rawi E. Abdelal while... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
Case

Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Sogomon Tarontsi and Alexander Jorov

Critics have accused Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer, of eschewing market principles in favor of the foreign policy priorities of the Russian government, ever since the energy giant cut off the supply to Ukraine in January of 2006. The purported... View Details

Keywords: History; International Relations; Trade; Energy Industry; Russia; Soviet Union; Ukraine; Europe

February 2007 (Revised February 2007)
Module Note

The International Financial Architecture

The International Financial Architecture is one of the core modules of Managing International Trade and Investment, an elective course at Harvard Business School. Provides instructors with an overview of the module, the cases and readings, and the teaching notes. View Details

Keywords: International Finance

June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings (TN)

Keywords: Public Sector; Credit; Financial Services Industry

June 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Teaching Note

Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (TN) (A), (B), & (C)

Keywords: Energy Industry; Russia

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

management. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRussia: Revolution and Reform Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-030... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2019 (Revised January 2025)
Case

Russia: A Drama In Three Acts

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu

The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, struggled to reestablish central authority while also seeking to... View Details