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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... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
regulatory structure proposed by the Treasury would consist of three key parts. In addition to its role as the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve would act as a market stability regulator, focusing on systemic risk. It would take...
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Dwight L. Stuart
Continuing his father’s and grandfather’s tradition of success at Carnation, Dwight Stuart helped increase company sales to well over $2 billion by 1979. During his tenure, he introduced almost 200 new...
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Food & Tobacco
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- 01 Jun 2004
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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,...
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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
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 landscape is...
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by Susan Young
- July 2022
- Case
David Crane’s Clean(er) Energy Strategy at NRG
By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Tom Quinn
In 2015, David Crane was the CEO of NRG, the second-largest energy producer in the United States. NRG got most of its power from fossil fuels, but Crane – hired as CEO in 2003 as NRG emerged from bankruptcy – had invested heavily in alternative energy, loudly...
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Energy;
Leadership;
Corporate Governance;
Transformation;
Alternative Energy;
Energy Generation;
Climate Change;
Corporate Accountability;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry;
United States
Serafeim, George, Michael W. Toffel, and Tom Quinn. "David Crane’s Clean(er) Energy Strategy at NRG." Harvard Business School Case 623-005, July 2022.
Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations
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- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
Winfrey: See that baby. Oh, there he is. There's Arthur's grand baby. That's Arthur's grand baby. You want to see? Arthur Brooks: Yeah. That's my grandson, by the way. That's the special— Goldberg: Hold up the grandson, first. Brooks:...
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by HBS Staff
- 2008
- Book
Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations
By: Abraham Zaleznik
In this compelling look at charismatic leaders and their leadership styles, Abraham Zaleznik asserts that leaders are either "hedgehogs," who view leadership as a single-minded track driven by unwavering rules, or "foxes," who assess and re-evaluate their...
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Attitudes;
Leadership Style;
Government and Politics;
Power and Influence;
Innovation and Invention
Zaleznik, Abraham. Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene...
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by James Heskett
- October 2023
- Case
Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact
A case on CRANE, a tool to help investors and green technology companies estimate the future climate impact of new technologies and products, called emissions reduction potential (ERP). The case includes material on CRANE’s methodology for estimating future carbon...
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Carbon Emissions;
Environmental Accounting;
Analysis;
Climate Change;
Green Technology;
Innovation and Invention;
Measurement and Metrics;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Enterprise
Rigol, Natalia, Benjamin N. Roth, Brian Trelstad, and Amram Migdal. "Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact." Harvard Business School Case 824-119, October 2023.
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
interactions do not occur ex nihilo, but are shaped by culturally available ideologies about what it means to be a man. Hence, men's masculine identity (like women's feminine identity) is a profoundly social and cultural phenomenon. As...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
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...
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Moving the Eliot Table
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
relationship with money. The company, Turkasset, has been successful with its heterodox techniques, giving it a competitive advantage over rival debt collection firms. What’s more, it has also provided a boon for companies who held the debt in the first place, View Details