by Kathleen Miller - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
Case

Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design

Gary Van Spronsen, president of Miller SQA, has been asked to leave the thriving subsidiary he helped to reinvent to join Herman Miller's corporate initiative on innovation. Miller SQA has pioneered processes new to the Herman Miller organization, such as... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Organizations; Values and Beliefs; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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October 2003
Teaching Note

Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design (TN)

By: Sandra J. Sucher

Teaching Note to (9-602-023). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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31 May 2023
HBS Case

From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller

Miller shares how education helped him escape a life of crime, how keeping his secret came at a huge personal price, and why employers should give the formerly incarcerated a chance to succeed. Directed by... View Details

Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products

Profile

Venus Miller

In high school, Venus Miller got the marketing bug in a big way. Recruited into DECA/Delta Epsilon Chi, an international organization that promotes marketing and business education among high school and college students, Venus quickly... View Details

Joseph I. Miller

outsource their engine production to Cummins. By the end of his tenure, Cummins had reached the billion-dollar revenue mark and had captured over 45% of the domestic market for diesel engines. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

11 Sep 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Keywords: by Kathleen Miller & George Serafeim

January 2025
Case

Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details

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13 May 2015
Video

Professor Kathleen McGinn on working mothers as positive role models for their children

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

10 Jul 2012
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Communicating Frames in Negotiations

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Markus Nöth

16 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination within Organizational Studies

Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn

19 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

Photography by Robert Schoen Lori Schock, copresident of the HBS Student Association, defines her leadership role as being an activist for students' priorities. “When I go to meetings, I'm constantly thinking of the hundreds of other... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

05 Mar 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

accommodating an appropriate level of economic activity. Businesses have historically overcome this type of challenge through the introduction of risk-mitigating technologies, which in this pandemic include technologies, business practices, and strategies that improve... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score

Miller Photo courtesy James Andrew Miller Having spent much of my time since graduating from HBS working in television or writing books or movies, I’m often asked why I went to business school in the first... View Details

Keywords: James Andrew Miller; Organizational Behavior; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment