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  • August 1985 (Revised July 1991)
  • Case

Bankers Trust New York Corp.

By: Dwight B. Crane and Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
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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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  • 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
  • October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson
Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • March 2012 (Revised July 2014)
  • Supplement

PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (B)

By: Christopher Marquis, William Drewery, Bradley Crane and Laura Velez Villa
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Groundwork

construction crews made steady progress on the most dramatic campus transformation in the last decade. On the former site of Kresge Hall, giant cranes moved steel girders into place as part of the construction of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

New Wave

energy. Verdant’s massive turbine system weighs 105 tons; installation required a barge ride from its New Jersey assembly location and a crane to lower it into the East River (Courtesy Verdant Power) If our laptops and lightbulbs do not... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 03 Jun 2016
  • News

Again in a Great City

entertainment-oriented retail,” Cummings says. He dispenses this optimistic wisdom in a low rumble and cranes his neck to see the top of each building, as if still impressed by the heights they’ve reached. Now it’s on to “Ilitch country,”... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

crippling civil conflict: Sri Lanka is at a pivotal moment in its history, he says, a moment that represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do no less than help shape his country’s future. He turns back to the lake, framing the view in his mind’s eye. Looming in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was... View Details
Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia