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Dwight B. Crane

Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently serving as Chair of the Owner/President Management Program and teaching Financial Management in this program for entrepreneurial...

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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Baker’s Man of Steel

A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just... View Details
Keywords: Baker Library; Bobby Delaney; crane; operator; Construction of Buildings; Construction
  • 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
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

that is expected over the next five years," explained Crane. "That poses a significant short-term challenge in terms of replenishing the current faculty." In addition, Crane noted, over the past several years the School has expanded its... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

At the PSA Corporation’s Pasir Panjang container terminal in Singapore, the cranes operate automatically: no drivers, just operators remotely controlling up to six of the lifting machines with a single joystick. Welcome to the most... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

HBS Expands Global Presence

the need to integrate multiple cultures in their management structure. The introduction of the Euro has also had a strong impact both on corporate finance and, not surprisingly, on the strategy of banking institutions." Comparing business differences across regions can... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
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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 Feb 2000
  • News

Spangler Center in Top Form

tree, was then lifted to the top of the structure. As spectators watched admiringly, a huge crane floated the beam several stories up to the top of the building, where it was gracefully accepted and put into place by two ironworkers 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
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • News

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

  • 01 Jun 2000
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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 by... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
  • 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

$1 and $2 billion drugs will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes." And the drug industry won't be the only field affected, according to Alan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Green House

craned into place on site. Factory construction enabled the six layers of insulation and air-resistant and moisture-wicking materials to be cut and adhered with precision. And the triple-paned windows and doors, manufactured in Poland,... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

efficiency has led to mergers," says Dwight Crane. "What were nine banks in Boston, Hartford, and Providence, for instance, is now one megabank. Firms now need to capture a larger share of each customer's business," Crane observes, noting... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 2000
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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 interests 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 a relatively short hop from... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included

long? What if ships could be propelled without fossil fuels now? That’s an idea at the heart of Fleetzero. The concept has an elegant simplicity: Build batteries into shipping containers that can be unloaded with cranes like any other... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Water Transportation; 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
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