Management Consulting · New York · London · Singapore
For twenty-five years, Harborhill & Crane has advised boards and management teams through the decisions that define a decade — repositioning portfolios, rebuilding operating models, and integrating the acquisitions that change the shape of an industry.
Trusted by boards and management teams across financial services, industrials, and healthcare
What we do
We are deliberately concentrated. Every partner works in the areas where the firm has earned its conviction — and nowhere else.
01
We help leadership teams decide where to compete and how to win — sizing markets, pressure-testing the investment thesis, and translating ambition into a three-year plan the board will fund.
Market entry · portfolio strategy · pricing architecture · investment cases
02
When margins compress and the clock is running, we stabilize the P&L, rebuild the cost base line by line, and install the operating cadence that keeps the gains from leaking back out.
Cost transformation · working-capital release · performance management
03
From diligence through Day 100 and beyond, we protect the value that justified the deal — sequencing synergies, retaining the talent that matters, and merging two cultures without breaking either.
Commercial diligence · synergy capture · post-merger integration
04
We modernize how a company runs — not with a slide on transformation, but with a redesigned operating model, a credible technology roadmap, and the governance to make change stick.
Operating-model design · technology strategy · process redesign
$140B
In transactions advised since 1998
27
Years partnering with boards
24
Industries served worldwide
92%
Of clients re-engage within three years
How we work
A method that has held across twenty-five years and four economic cycles.
01
Most engagements begin with a brief and a hidden question underneath it. We surface both, then agree on the decision the work is meant to inform.
02
Conviction comes from evidence. We build the model, talk to the customers, and walk the operations before we write a single recommendation.
03
A recommendation is not a result. We remain through implementation — installing the cadence and governance that keep the value from leaking back out.
Selected engagements
A handful of the engagements our clients have allowed us to share. The numbers are theirs; the conviction was ours.
Financial Services
A $48B regional bank faced flat deposit growth and a fragmented product set. We rebuilt the commercial segment strategy and rationalized 40% of the product catalog within a single planning cycle.
+38%
Commercial deposit growth in 18 months
Industrials
A 70-year-old manufacturer was losing money on two of three product lines. We stabilized the P&L in one quarter, released working capital, and rebuilt the operating cadence that held the gains.
$94M
Working capital released in year one
Healthcare
Cardinal Health Group acquired Verena Pharmaceuticals for its pipeline. We led the integration that captured synergies on schedule while protecting the research teams that made the deal worth doing.
$320M
Annual synergies captured by Day 365
The partners
Every engagement is led by a partner who stays on the work from the first conversation to the last.
Managing Partner
Corporate strategy · Financial services
Eleanor founded the firm’s strategy practice and has advised more than sixty boards through repositioning and capital decisions. She spent a decade in banking before concluding that the most interesting problems were the ones nobody would name out loud.
Senior Partner, Operations
Turnaround · Industrials
Marcus leads the firm’s operational practice and has run more than thirty turnarounds across manufacturing, logistics, and energy. He is known for spending the first week on the floor and the last week making sure the numbers stay.
Counsel for decisions that compound.
A partner reviews every engagement personally. Tell us the situation, and we will tell you — honestly — whether and how we can help.