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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Replica Bell for Baker Library; Historic Original Returns to Russia
In August, the bell atop Baker Library was replaced by a replica as the original, along with seventeen other bells at Harvard University, is being returned to Russia. Amid fears that the Soviets might melt them down, the bells were sold... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in Five Countries
- 23 Nov 2015
- News
The Historian Who Came in from the Cold
- 20 Aug 2012
- News
The Other Commons
- 15 Oct 2018
- News
Venezuela’s Meltdown Creates a Nation of Desperate Capitalists
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
the former Soviet republic shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and found its citizens still suffering from the devastating effects of World War... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
world. Hoa's route to the head of Galaxy has been a circuitous one. After high school, she lived in the former Soviet Union while attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. "In college,... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that company could have learned that tactic from Stalin. That’s how Stalin maintained fear in the Soviet Union. He wouldn’t just shoot his opponents; he’d shoot people randomly. The whole point of employer responses to workers’ efforts to... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Post-Soviet Purpose
of Slavic Studies. The book describes how national identities influence the world economy and explains patterns of economic disintegration and reintegration among Russia and the other fourteen states that composed the Soviet View Details
- 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... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
talented young people and encourage them to apply to HBS. Under the leadership of HBS senior associate dean Thomas Piper, the East-West opening expanded in the early 1990s. Vlachoutsicos, in collaboration with HBS professor Francis Aguilar, laid the groundwork in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and the Soviet Union doing their own thing, but it’s the world trying to solve that problem. “There will be enough symptoms that will start to emerge that will force the discussion as well as the plodding... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North