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  • May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Industry Structures; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Bids and Bidding; Economy; Ownership Stake; Chemical Industry; Brazil
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  • January 1994 (Revised June 1994)
  • Case

Dean Witter, Discover & Co.

By: Dwight B. Crane and W. James Whalen
Early in 1993, Sears was in the process of spinning off its Dean Witter, Discover subsidiary. This subsidiary consisted of a securities brokerage that was acquired in 1981 and also the Discover Card, a general purpose credit card, the firm introduced in 1985. The key... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Business Subsidiaries; Initial Public Offering; Credit Cards; Corporate Strategy; Asset Pricing; Financial Services Industry
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  • 1975
  • Book

Management of Bank Portfolios

By: S. P. Bradley and D. B. Crane
Keywords: Management; Investment Portfolio
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  • 1977
  • Book

NOW Accounts: Strategies for Financial Institutions

By: D. B. Crane and Michael J. Riley
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Strategy
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  • spring 1973
  • Article

Management of Commercial Bank Government Security Portfolios: An Optimization Approach Under Uncertainty

By: D. B. Crane and Stephen P. Bradley
Keywords: Management; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • January–February 1972
  • Article

Who Benefits from a Floating Prime Rate?

By: D. B. Crane and William L White
Keywords: Interest Rates
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

First, as Greg Waldrip points out, let's get things in perspective. These are only means to carry out a strategy after goals are determined, all in a supportive management environment. Dennis Crane concurs, adding that "Information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

As part of this project, I have been studying the history of Junior Achievement, which was a group founded in 1919 by AT&T president Theodore Vail, Strathmore Paper Co. president Horace Moses, and Senator Murray Crane (R-Mass.). Vail... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2005
  • Supplement

Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (VHS Video)

By: John A. Davis, Dwight B. Crane and Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords: Forest Products Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Supplement

Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (C)

By: John A. Davis, Dwight B. Crane and Kelly M. Mulderry
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Forest Products Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • November 1985
  • Supplement

Paine Webber (A): Choosing a Corporate Strategy, Supplement

By: Dwight B. Crane and Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Corporate Strategy
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  • June 2006
  • Teaching Note

Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (TN) (A), (B) and (C)

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Keywords: Leadership
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  • September 2005 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

Spyder Active Sports - 2004

By: Belen Villalonga, Dwight B. Crane and James Quinn
David Jacobs founded a high-end ski apparel company in 1978. He successfully built and grew the company, establishing a major international brand that appealed to ski racers and other active skiers. In 1995, he sought external financing to support further growth of the... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Valuation; Brands and Branding; Wealth; Family Business; Financing and Loans; Globalization; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Colorado
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  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

[HBS professor emeritus] Dwight Crane for the Credit Union Executives Society. It was a relatively short hop from there to develop the broader Consumer Financial Services (CFS) Executive Education program at HBS. To prepare for that, I... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • June 1988
  • Case

Holiday Greetings, Inc. (Abridged)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr., Dwight B. Crane and Jonathan Tiemann
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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  • 06 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

mental health issues that are entirely manageable, and by making it more costly for them to come forward. "You can imagine a fallout from this tragedy, subjecting everyone from crane operators to Uber drivers to random mental health... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation
  • 1982
  • Working Paper

Pattern of OPEC Capital Flows

By: S. L. Hayes III, Dwight B. Crane and Elaine C. Ide
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  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907011 Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission Harvard Business School Case 307-067 After a "first career" in business, HBS graduate Christopher Crane... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

evacuation took place, four people at a time clinging to a "basket," a large donut shaped contraption with nets through which we laced our arms, as a crane lowered us 400 feet to the boat's deck. The lengthy (eight-hour) trip... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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