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• Case | HBS Case Collection | March 2017 (Revised March 2018)

  Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs

  Geoffrey Jones, Rachael Comunale and Kate Lazaroff-Puck

  This case examines the career of the Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky was one of a small group of business tycoons that became fabulously rich after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, as the new Russian government, advised by prominent Harvard economists, privatized state assets. The case provides an opportunity to explore how this happened, and what its impact was both at the time and for the subsequent development of capitalism in Russia. Berevosky's business empire suffered a major reversal after the appointment of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2000. Berevosky's opposition to Putin's plans to restore the authority of the Russian state led to his exile in Britain, where he reinvented himself as an opponent of authoritarianism.

  Keywords: Russia; Business ＆ government relations; business history; privatization; Government and Politics; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Privatization; Soviet Union; Russia;

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  Jones, Geoffrey, Rachael Comunale, and Kate Lazaroff-Puck. "Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs." Harvard Business School Case 317-005, March 2017. (Revised March 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | July 2004 (Revised March 2018)

  Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century

  Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron

  Concerns the growth of multinational trading companies in the first global economy. Examines two Scottish-owned merchant houses, Jardine Matheson and James Finlay, and shows their changing trade and investment strategies as well as their use of an organizational form later known as business groups. Also demonstrates the role of ethnic networks in globalization during this historical period. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

  Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Trade; Social and Collaborative Networks; China;

  Citation:

  Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised March 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | April 2017 (Revised March 2018)

  Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman

  Geoffrey Jones and Kathy Choi

  This case examines the entrepreneurial career of Helena Rubinstein before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started a cosmetics company. She subsequently moved first to Europe, and then to the United States during World War I, where she engaged with relentless competition in the upscale cosmetics market with her rival Elizabeth Arden. The case examines how Rubinstein created a luxury brand and enables a discussion of the impact of such brands on women. Rubinstein articulated the view that cosmetics were liberating for women, but some of her strategies, such as wearing white coats in many advertisements designed to signal that she was scientifically qualified, can be used to support a more critical view of the beauty industry.

  Keywords: Brands and Branding; Luxury; Entrepreneurship; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;

  Citation:

  Jones, Geoffrey, and Kathy Choi. "Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman." Harvard Business School Case 317-116, April 2017. (Revised March 2018.)  View Details

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