Publications

October 2006
Supplement

Spyder Active Sports - 2004 Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Dwight B. Crane and Belen Villalonga

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

February 2003 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Susan Griffin: Formulation of a Long-Term Investment Strategy

By: Dwight B. Crane and Julia Stevens

Susan Griffin, owner and cofounder of a small manufacturing company, is formulating a long-term investment strategy. Griffin plans to sell her $10 million company and invest the revenue. She must decide how to allocate her investment so that she can rely entirely on... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment

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January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
Case

VendQuest (A): The Business Idea

By: Dwight B. Crane and David Foster

A potential founder of a company is considering whether to start up a new enterprise that would link parts distributors with customers in the construction industries via the Internet. This case describes the industry and the potential advantages to distributors and... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; Distribution; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Customer Relationship Management; Business Ventures; Construction Industry

October 2000
Teaching Note

Drivers of Industry Financial Structure

By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs

Teaching Note for (9-201-039). View Details

Keywords: Finance; Financial Statements; Industry Structures

October 2000
Teaching Note

Kendle International Inc. TN

By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs

Teaching Note for (9-200-033). View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

December 2005
Article

Functional Change and Bank Strategy in German Corporate Governance.

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ulrike Schaede

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Strategy; Corporate Governance; Change; Germany

May 1988
Article

Management Dilemmas in Securities Firms

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Dwight B. Crane

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Management; Business Ventures; Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry

spring 1983
Article

The Evolution of International Banking Competition and Its Implications for Regulation

By: D. B. Crane and Samuel L. Hayes III

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Competition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

November 1985
Case

Paine Webber (B): Implementing a Corporate Strategy

By: Dwight B. Crane and Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Management; Finance

Article

The New Competition in World Banking

By: D. B. Crane and S. L. Hayes III

Keywords: Competition; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

February 1999 (Revised March 1999)
Exercise

Investment Analysis Exercises

By: Dwight B. Crane and Penny Joseph

To teach present value analysis. View Details

Keywords: Investment

June 1986
Case

Western Graduate School of Business

By: Dwight B. Crane and James Moore

June 1986
Case

Penn Tech Graduate School of Business

By: Dwight B. Crane and James Moore

April 1984 (Revised January 1987)
Case

American Can Co.--1984

By: Francis Aguilar and Dwight B. Crane

1993
Chapter

The Strategy of a Merger: Fleet and Bank of New England

By: D. B. Crane and J.C. Linder

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; New England

October 2006 (Revised February 2009)
Teaching Note

Spyder Active Sports - 2004 (TN)

By: Belen Villalonga and Dwight B. Crane

Teaching Note to (206-027). View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry

1998
Working Paper

The Design and Production of New Retirement Savings Products

By: Zvi Bodie and Dwight B. Crane

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

now need to capture a larger share of each customer's business," Crane observes, noting that the lines between financial service sectors are blurring. Today's bank offers many of the services of a brokerage firm, and vice versa.... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

June 1998 (Revised April 1999)
Case

Wiegandt GmbH Cologne

By: Dwight B. Crane and Mathew M Millett

The credit department of Wiegandt, a furniture manufacturer, is evaluating the financial condition of two stores that retail the company's furniture. View Details

Keywords: Financial Condition; Credit; Financial Management; Distribution Channels; Profit; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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