by Karen Mills - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2020
News

Will Fintech ‘Save the Day’ as USA Struggles with Corona Stimulus?

26 Mar 2020
News

Managing Through Crisis: Let's Talk About Small Business

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

Summing Up How can business schools reprofessionalize management? The responses to this month's column can be characterized in several ways: 1) Business schools, particularly those regarded as being the "elite," by their very... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Apr 2020
News

Millions Of US Small Businesses May Never Reopen

24 Apr 2015
News

How to Identify a Bad Investor

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

What should business leaders know about the ambitions of Russia, China, and the European Union? They should know how geopolitical conditions exert enormous pressure on companies, according to Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2020
News

American Express acquiring small business lender Kabbage

19 Mar 2015
News

Startup Raises $40M to Keep Small Businesses’ Cash Flowing

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

call that goal the "Utilitarian criterion" after the philosophical framework that supports it. Since pioneering work in the 1970s by Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, the Utilitarian criterion has dominated tax research. It has had enormous... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Five Graduates Receive the 2011 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

22 Apr 2020
News

Oil Prices to Remain Low, Sen Says

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

it helps people deal with the great challenges offered by technological innovations and the emergence of the new economy," Mills proclaims. Although those challenges are still out there, today they... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

in which to communicate decisions and priorities, but also have rapid communication to the entire body of constituents—not delays over hours or days or, even worse, weeks. Silence is absolutely the worst possible thing that you allow to happen, because that’s when the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

May 1993 (Revised October 1993)
Case

Vanity Fair Mills: Market Response System

Describes the "Quick Response" program developed by Vanity Fair Mills (VFM), a division of the VF Corp. Beginning in 1989, VFM reorganized its manufacturing systems, invested heavily in computer and telecommunications equipment, and formed "partnership" agreements with... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Logistics; Distribution Channels; Manufacturing Industry

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25 Jul 2014
News

Expensive Small Business Lenders Are Unregulated. Should They Be?

July 2022
Case

General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)

By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani

Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details

Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States