Publications

September 2004 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (A)

By: John A. Davis, Dwight B. Crane and Kelly M. Mulderry

After inheriting the leadership of their family's land and lumber companies, Matt and Kevin Hancock struggled with how to revise their internally focused governance system. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Governance; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation

1982
Working Paper

Pattern of OPEC Capital Flows

By: S. L. Hayes III, Dwight B. Crane and Elaine C. Ide

April 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Be Our Guest, Inc.

By: Dwight B. Crane and Penny Joseph

Be Our Guest is a rapidly growing equipment rental company with substantial seasonality in its revenues and profits. In the spring of 1998, the senior management team is reviewing its financial plans in preparation for a meeting with the company's bank. The case... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Revenue; Management Teams; Business Plan; Forecasting and Prediction; Utilities Industry; Service Industry

September 1994
Teaching Note

Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction TN

By: Dwight B. Crane and Patrick Moreton

Teaching Note for (9-292-114). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry

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

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

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

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

www.buildcommonwealth.org. My first outlet for teaching the topic was an executive education program that I cochaired with HBS professor emeritus Dwight Crane for the Credit Union Executives Society. It was a relatively short hop from... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

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

fall 1987
Article

Managing through Networks in Investment Banking

By: D. B. Crane and R. G. Eccles

Keywords: Management; Networks; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
Supplement

Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (B)

By: John A. Davis and Dwight B. Crane

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Forest Products Industry; Real Estate Industry