by Kathleen Miller - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
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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
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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

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
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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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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

10 Jul 2012
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Communicating Frames in Negotiations

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Markus Nöth

16 Apr 2009
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Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination within Organizational Studies

Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn

19 Mar 2009
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Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn

03 Dec 2009
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Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman & Markus Nöth

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

05 Mar 2010
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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

05 Jul 2006
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Maximizing Joint Gains: Transaction Utility Within and Between Groups

Keywords: by Stephen Garcia, Max H. Bazerman & Dale Miller

02 Jul 2015
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Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Elizabeth Long Lingo

26 Nov 2018
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Demand Estimation in Models of Imperfect Competition

Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

11 Jun 2008
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Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

Keywords: by Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

17 Dec 2012
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An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn & Deborah Kolb

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

performance," says Harvard Business School associate professor George Serafeim. To create more understanding about the position, Serafeim wrote the paper "Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?" with View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing