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Game-Changers: David Crane, Climate Real Impact Solutions SPAC 08 APR 2021 | Climate Rising David Crane tried to lead the NRG utility to transition from fossil fuel energy sources, but was ousted in 2015. He shares his lessons learned,... View Details

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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement

doctor’s analysis to prove a positive or negative result; that is, until product designer Margaret Crane saw an opportunity to eliminate the middleman and create a way for women to take a pregnancy test privately, conveniently, and... View Details

March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
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Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction

By: Dwight B. Crane

Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to... View Details

Keywords: Debt Securities; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Market Transactions; Bonds; Investment Banking; Crisis Management; Auctions; Legal Liability; Banking Industry

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Financial Management

By: D. B. Crane

Keywords: Financial Management

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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

10 Feb 2016
News

Putting Faith in a Good Education

“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business... View Details

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

built a manufacturing company for Manitowoc Cranes as an Outsider CEO before buying that company and selling it, then being recruited by his family’s fifth generation hot sauce maker, McIlhenny Company. These family members have the right... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Auto

25 Mar 2016
News

Putting Faith in a Good Education

Photos by Nancee Lewis The kind of private schools Chris Crane (MBA 1976) invests in have cement floors, no glass in the windows, cramped quarters, and just enough food on hand for the students to eat. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Richard T. Crane, Jr.

With Crane at the helm, The Crane Company enjoyed the greatest expansion in its history. Crane grew the company into a firm with factories, branch houses, sales offices, and... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

has only about 30,000 genes—far fewer than was previously believed. What's more, the genetic difference between people, indeed, between people and animals, is relatively small. Genomics is the most destructive force in the history of medicine.—Alan View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2008
News

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

01 Dec 2007
News

Homeward Bound

On a bright mid-August morning, a hard-hat crew aided by a massive crane replaced the centuries-old Russian bell atop Baker Library with a newly cast HBS Centennial Bell. The old bell, considered a Russian national treasure, was returned... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
News

Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial

launched the School’s Centennial, an unlikely pairing until you know the backstory. It begins in 1930 when American industrialist and diplomat Charles R. Crane purchased a set of eighteen bells taken from the St. Danilov Monastery in... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Fellowship Dinner Brings Students and Donors Together

in his post-dinner remarks. Thanking donors for their “selfless generosity” and promising that HBS fellowship students “will repay the world many times over,” Christopher E. Crane (MBA '02) expressed his appreciation at this year's... View Details

Keywords: Management