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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
cabin. “When I get out, I still don’t feel like talking.” Some of the newer cranes are computerized, but Delaney prefers to do the job by feel — something he’s well qualified to do. “Too long,” he answers,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
shore of Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land that lies between Manhattan and Queens. Smith’s eyes are fixed on a patch of water demarcated by a series of white and orange Coast Guard buoys. Thirty feet below the surface, a trio of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc... View Details
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Bless this Stress
crane you’ll walk across,” Akinola says, pointing 900 feet up to the tower’s rooftop. A steel beam extends horizontally from the roof—squarely in the heavens. While Hemsworth has built a career avenging evil as the Norse god Thor in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his... View Details
- 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
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Harvard Business School's mission to bring cutting-edge business practice to the classroom." According to Dwight B. Crane, senior associate dean, director of Faculty Development, a number of factors are exerting new pressures on the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
particularly when that work involves an international dimension. We want the ERC to provide a complete infrastructure for faculty so that they can develop cases in the most favorable conditions possible." HBS professor Dwight B. Crane,... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- News
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
meantime, planning for the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Berlin continues apace, and we are thrilled to see that as of late April, close to one thousand people had registered to attend. This is clearly a record -- and a testament to the compelling program arranged... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
compete in this 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... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Dwight Crane. "There is a learning curve in conducting business over the Internet. After people break through a few initial barriers and see the power of the medium, there is no telling what will happen." One futuristic device that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 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... View Details
- 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 1999
- News
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: Garry Emmons
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
consumer data, expect social platforms to grab media dollars from TV budgets and to drive e-commerce sales. Facebook continues to grow but look for Google to get more aggressive by leveraging YouTube and Google+." —Walter Delph (MBA... View Details