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      • July 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space

      By: Boris Groysberg and Annelena Lobb
      On June 13, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman to fly in space on Vostok 6. Soviet leaders publicly espoused gender equity, but also sent Tereshkova on her mission in order to be the first country to send a woman to space, a milestone they...  View Details
      Keywords: Gender Equity; Gender; Equality And Inequality; Personal Development And Career; Aerospace Industry; soviet union; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Annelena Lobb. "Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space." Harvard Business School Case 421-005, July 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • November 2019 (Revised June 2020)
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      Russia: A Drama In Three Acts

      By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein and Sogomon Tarontsi
      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
      Keywords: Business & Government Relations; Developing Countries; Government Policy; Policy Change; Policy Making; Economic Systems; Economics; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Non-renewable Energy; Governance; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Policy; Business History; Lawfulness; Problems And Challenges; Business And Government Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Strategy; Change Management; Russia; Moscow
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      Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, and Sogomon Tarontsi. "Russia: A Drama In Three Acts." Harvard Business School Case 720-020, November 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
      • August 2019
      • Case

      Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?

      By: Willy Shih and Esel Çekin
      This case describes the evolution of Kazakhstan's rail connectivity strategy post-collapse of the Soviet Union and its now central role in China's Belt and Road Initiative. This meant shifting from a north-south orientation towards an east-west one, as well as the...  View Details
      Keywords: Geopolitics; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘belt And Road’ Initiative; Logistics; Trade; Economic Growth; Geopolitical Units; Geography; Rail Transportation; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; China
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      Shih, Willy, and Esel Çekin. "Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?" Harvard Business School Case 620-020, August 2019.
      • Spring 2018
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      The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini

      By: Jeremy Friedman
      This article examines the strategy of the Iranian Tudeh Party in concert with its Soviet and East German patrons and allies during and after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The article assesses the thinking behind the Tudeh’s strategy of unwavering support for...  View Details
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      Friedman, Jeremy. "The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini." Journal of Cold War Studies 20, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 3–37.
      • May 2017 (Revised April 2020)
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      Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Snigdha Sur
      This case examines the career of Raj Kapoor, the legendary Bollywood filmmaker of the postwar decades. It explores how Kapoor built RK studios after 1948 by releasing a series of movies that combined romance with social messages focused on the fate of the common man in...  View Details
      Keywords: Film Entertainment; History; Personal Development And Career; Social Issues; Gender; Problems And Challenges; Values And Beliefs; Motion Pictures And Video Industry; India; soviet union
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Snigdha Sur. "Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman." Harvard Business School Case 317-100, May 2017. (Revised April 2020.)
      • March 2017 (Revised December 2019)
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      Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs

      By: 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...  View Details
      Keywords: Business & Government Relations; 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 December 2019.)
      • 2015
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      Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

      By: Jeremy Friedman
      The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's...  View Details
      Keywords: Competition; War; International Relations; China; United States; soviet union
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      Friedman, Jeremy. Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
      • 2015
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      Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World

      By: Jeremy Friedman
      This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave...  View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Business And Government Relations; China; United States; soviet union
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      Friedman, Jeremy. "Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World." Modern China Studies [Dang dai Zhongguo yan jiu] 22, no. 1 (2015): 259–292.
      • December 2014
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      Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

      By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
      Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this case describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union,...  View Details
      Keywords: Kissinger; Negotiation; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; International Relations; Israel; Sinai; Egypt; Cold War; Detente; China; Nixon; Conflict Management; Negotiation Types; International Relations; Personal Development And Career; Israel; Egypt; China; United States; soviet union
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      Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments." Harvard Business School Case 915-020, December 2014.
      • 2016
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      Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

      By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green and Eugene B. Kogan
      Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union,...  View Details
      Keywords: Kissinger; Negotiation; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; International Relations; Coercive Diplomacy; Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development And Career; United States
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      Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, and Eugene B. Kogan. "Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-040, November 2014. (Revised December 2016.)
      • 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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      Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)." Harvard Business School Case 914-027, December 2013.
      • 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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      Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-028, December 2013.
      • June 2013 (Revised March 2016)
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      Estonia: Transition, EU Membership, and the Euro

      By: Michael E. Porter, Christian Ketels and Örjan Sölvell
      The case discusses the economic development of Estonia, covering specifically the period from regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 until 2015. It tracks the process from the initial transition towards a market economy to becoming an EU member country,...  View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Government And Politics; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Strategy; Estonia
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      Porter, Michael E., Christian Ketels, and Örjan Sölvell. "Estonia: Transition, EU Membership, and the Euro." Harvard Business School Case 713-479, June 2013. (Revised March 2016.)
      • May 2013
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      From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

      By: Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
      We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the...  View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Supply And Industry; Labor; West Germany; soviet union
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      Falck, Oliver, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr. "From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 3 (May 2013): 419–449.
      • October 2012 (Revised March 2014)
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      Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A) and (B)

      By: Juan Alcácer
      The teaching plan to accompany "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)," HBS No. 713-430; "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B)," HBS No. 713-471. It is divided into an introduction, followed by three discussion...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Planning; Strategic Positioning; Strategy; Location Choices; Location Strategies; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets And Industries; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets And Industries; Food And Beverage Industry; Sweden; soviet union
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      Alcácer, Juan. "Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 713-461, October 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
      • 2010
      • Article

      Youxian de huobanguanxi: 1928 nian zhi 1944 nian Zhongguo yu Deguo, Sulian he Meiguo de guanxi [Limited Partners: China's Relations with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, 1928-1944]

      By: William C. Kirby
      自1928年国民党统治开始,中国第一次进入了其现代意义上的国际合作关系时期,寻求国际伙伴关系首次成为中国内政与外交政策的主要目标。20世纪30年代和40年代早期的中德、中俄和中美关系各自具有鲜明的特性。中德关系建立在两国领导人互相信任和经验积累的基础之上,某些意识形态上的类似是其得以发展的主要因素,但更重要的是互补的经济利益使国民党可以实现平等的合作。中苏关系和中美关系一开始就是为了增强双方对付共同敌人的力量而形成结盟的,之前都不具有恰当的合作机制,而意识形态是一个复杂的、不利于结盟的因素。在中苏关系中,结盟意味着从直接敌对状态转向谨...  View Details
      Keywords: History; China; Germany; Russia; United States
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      Kirby, William C. "Youxian de huobanguanxi: 1928 nian zhi 1944 nian Zhongguo yu Deguo, Sulian he Meiguo de guanxi [Limited Partners: China's Relations with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States, 1928-1944]." Shehui kexue yanjiu [Social Science Research], no. 3 (2010): 138–152.
      • March 2010 (Revised October 2017)
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      Russia: Revolution and Reform

      By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Sogomon Tarontsi
      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, since then have struggled to reestablish central authority while...  View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Economic Systems; Government Administration; Business And Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Russia
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      Abdelal, Rawi E., and Sogomon Tarontsi. "Russia: Revolution and Reform." Harvard Business School Case 710-030, March 2010. (Revised October 2017.)
      • 2010
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      Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

      By: Laura Alfaro
      All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies And Regions; Policy; Government And Politics; Business And Government Relations
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      Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific, 2010.
      • August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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      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
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      Abdelal, Rawi E., Sogomon Tarontsi, and Alexander Jorov. "Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History." Harvard Business School Case 709-008, August 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
      • February 2007 (Revised November 2007)
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      Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession

      By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
      Describes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia became an EU member. Latvia had...  View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries And Economies; Economic Growth; Policy; Business And Government Relations; European union; Latvia
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      Porter, Michael E., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession." Harvard Business School Case 707-515, February 2007. (Revised November 2007.)
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