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  • 23 Apr 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

regulatory structure proposed by the Treasury would consist of three key parts. In addition to its role as the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve would act as a market stability regulator, focusing on systemic risk. It would take... View Details
Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Banking; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

Walt Disney’s time in Paris during the waning days of World War I helped shape him into a visionary entrepreneur who would ultimately build a beloved international brand. Dwight Eisenhower and Robert McNamara discovered the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

brave new world. The transformation ignited by the Internet is creating a new paradigm in the financial services industry, characterized by surprising business structures. "The competitive landscape is... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • July 2022
  • Case

David Crane’s Clean(er) Energy Strategy at NRG

By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Tom Quinn
In 2015, David Crane was the CEO of NRG, the second-largest energy producer in the United States. NRG got most of its power from fossil fuels, but Crane – hired as CEO in 2003 as NRG emerged from bankruptcy – had invested heavily in alternative energy, loudly... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Leadership; Corporate Governance; Transformation; Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Climate Change; Corporate Accountability; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

Winfrey: See that baby. Oh, there he is. There's Arthur's grand baby. That's Arthur's grand baby. You want to see? Arthur Brooks: Yeah. That's my grandson, by the way. That's the special— Goldberg: Hold up the grandson, first. Brooks:... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 2008
  • Book

Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations

By: Abraham Zaleznik
In this compelling look at charismatic leaders and their leadership styles, Abraham Zaleznik asserts that leaders are either "hedgehogs," who view leadership as a single-minded track driven by unwavering rules, or "foxes," who assess and re-evaluate their... View Details
Keywords: Attitudes; Leadership Style; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Innovation and Invention
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  • October 2023
  • Case

Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact

By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin N. Roth, Brian Trelstad and Amram Migdal
A case on CRANE, a tool to help investors and green technology companies estimate the future climate impact of new technologies and products, called emissions reduction potential (ERP). The case includes material on CRANE’s methodology for estimating future carbon... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Environmental Accounting; Analysis; Climate Change; Green Technology; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk and Uncertainty; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise
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  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

protection, and a trust fund to enhance whooping crane habitats elsewhere. Working solo or jointly at the drawing board, negotiators sometimes can discover hidden sources of value and then craft agreements to unlock that value and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

the greater the likelihood that it will not be a major player in future competitions in rapidly changing environments. —Professor James Heskett Both Dennis Crane and Richard Eckel suggested that a broader view of the competitive spectrum... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

interactions do not occur ex nihilo, but are shaped by culturally available ideologies about what it means to be a man. Hence, men's masculine identity (like women's feminine identity) is a profoundly social and cultural phenomenon. As... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

There's a saying in the military: "Plans go out the window at the first contact with the enemy." Even General Dwight Eisenhower—who oversaw the most ambitious military invasion in modern history—said, "Plans are worthless." But he added... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction

By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
A construction 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 an important... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Contracts; Crisis Management; Construction Industry
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  • Research Summary

Financial Markets and Corporate Governance

By: Dwight B. Crane
Corporate scandals beginning in the late 1990s focused renewed attention on corporate governance, but significant cracks in the governance system also contributed to recent problems. Deregulation and growth of financial markets, as well as changes in the competitive... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

relationship with money. The company, Turkasset, has been successful with its heterodox techniques, giving it a competitive advantage over rival debt collection firms. What’s more, it has also provided a boon for companies who held the debt in the first place, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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