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D. Quinn Mills

D. Quinn Mills

Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

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Daniel Quinn Mills consults with major corporations and governments and lectures about management, leadership, strategy, economics and geopolitics.   He is an expert on the differences between Asian and Western leadership styles.  His most recent article is “Asian and American Leadership Styles:  How They Differ,” published in the Peking University Business Review, August, 2007.  An American, Mills is also a member of the Innovation Council of Malaysia, a ministry level council chaired by the Prime Minister.

During the Vietnam War (1967-1974), Mills was responsible within the federal government for wages, prices, and production in the capital goods industries constituting some 14% of America’s Gross Domestic Product. 

Mills arrived at the Harvard Business School in 1976 having taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1968 to 1975.  He remained at Harvard until 2007.

Mills has been interested in early stage businesses and as a director and investor has helped develop several firms.   He has been a director of a publicly listed company, chairing its audit committee for several years.            

A thought leader, Mills has written books on leadership, geo-politics, investments, capital markets, business strategy, network organizations, demographics, marketing, empowerment, and union relations.  

His most recent book is Democracy and Its Elected Enemies, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press also, Master of Illusions:  Presidential Leadership, Strategic Independence and America’s Public Culture, published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press.   The book explores America’s role in the world in the aftermath of the second Iraqi War.

Other recent books include three studies of executive leadership:  Principles of Management; Leadership:  How to Lead, How to Live; and Principles of Human Resource Management — each published in 2005 and 2006 by MindEdge Press.  

Another book, Having It All:  Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First, published in 2004 by Prentice-Hall, offers an effective approach for people to balancing their work and family lives.

Two books published early in this decade tell the story of equity market manipulations:  Wheel, Deal and Steal:  Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms (published by The Financial Times/Prentice Hall, April 2003) and Buy, Lie and Sell High:  How Investors Lost out on Enron and the Internet Bubble (published in 2002).

A 1996 book, Broken Promises, sets forth the strategy that IBM adopted in the 1990s to turn itself around, while another 1996 work, Staying Afloat, proposes business strategies for the world’s construction companies.

In the early eighties, Mills was one of the first to examine the impact of demographics on management and consumption.  He studied the baby boomers in his book Not Like Our Parents (1987).  Also, he helped start interest in moving from management to leadership in business with his Rebirth of the Corporation (1991), and helped define and establish the new management approach of empowerment through The GEM Principle (1994).

Mills’ earliest books dealt with economics and employee relations.  As a government official he helped bring to a close the cycle of wage-push inflation which damaged the economy in the 1960s and ‘70s, and described these efforts in Government, Labor and Inflation (1975), Industrial Relations in Transition (1984), and his university-level textbook Labor-Management Relations (in five editions).

Widely and often quoted as well as seen in the national media, Mills has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, and been quoted in articles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.  He is a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.

His MA and Ph.D., both in economics, are from Harvard.   Mills received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University.

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Books
Books

  • Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills. Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Building World Class Universities in Asia. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. View Details
  • Rosefielde, Steven, and D. Quinn Mills. Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Principles of Management. Waltham, MA: MindEdge Press, 2005. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live. Waltham, MA: MindEdge Press, 2005. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander H., Daniel Quinn Mills, and Dirk Seifert. Collaborative Customer Relationship Management: Taking CRM to the Next Level. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, Sasha Mattu, and Kirstin Hornby. Having It All...And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander, D. Quinn Mills, and Dirk Seifert. Kooperatives Kundenmanagement. Wiesbaden, Germany: Gabler Verlag, 2002, German ed. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. Frankfurt: Galileo Press, 2002, German ed. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. eLeadership. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 2001. (Also published in translated edition in Portuguese, E-Liderazgo, Bilbao: Ediciones Deusto, 2002.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Internet University Vol. 1: Your Guide to Online College Courses; Vol. 2: Liberal Arts; Vol. 3: Technology; Vol. 4: Graduate Studies; Vol. 5: Business School Edition. Anaheim, CA: Cyber Classics, Inc., 1999. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. The Internet University. Anaheim: BNi Publications, 1999. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. Staying Afloat in the Construction Industry: Economic and Political Trends for the 1990s. Los Angeles: BNi Publications, 1996. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. The GEM Principle. Essex Junction, VT: Oliver Wight Publications, 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. The Empowerment Imperative. Amherst, MA: Human Resource Development Press, 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. Labor-management Relations. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. Rebirth of the Corporation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991. View Details
  • Beer, Michael, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence, and D. Q. Mills. Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program. New York, NY: Free Press, 1984. View Details

Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 27, 2005). (Also published in " Asian Diversity Magazine, December 2005.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Paradigm Lost: The Imperial CEO." Directors & Boards 27, no. 4 (Summer 2003): 41–42. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "How To Stop Another Stock Bubble." Expert-View. International Forum: The Magazine for Staff of Deutsche Bank Group (September 2002), 58. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander, Michael Leyk, D. Quinn Mills, Stefan Ruebke, and Dirk Seifert. "New Ways of Category Management." Harvard Business Manager (April 2002), 98–106. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. "New Concepts for Corporate e-Learning - The Use of Virtual Classes at Harvard Business School As Best Practice." Markt: Journal für Marketing (April 2002). View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Who's to Blame for the Bubble?" Harvard Business Review 79, no. 5 (May 2001): 22–23. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander, D. Quinn Mills, Olaf Passenheim, and Dirk Seifert. "Online-Marketing-Controlling." Markt: Journal für Marketing 40, no. 4 (2001): 151–158. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and I. Somerville. "Leading in a Leaderless World." Leader to Leader 13 (summer 1999): 30–38. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The American Perspective." CEO Report Chief Executive (January–February 1998), 10–13. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Changing Social Contract in American Business." European Management Journal 14, no. 5 (October 1996). View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Decline and Rise of IBM." MIT Sloan Management Review 37, no. 4 (summer 1996). View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The New Management System." European Management Journal 13, no. 3 (September 1995): 251–256. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Role of a Union in a Well-managed Company." LSL SMI Review (summer 1994): 11–14. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "Marketing in der Organization der Zukunft." Absatzwirtschaft (June 1993). View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Changing Workforce." Journal of Corporate Management 45, no. 21 (March–April 1993): 78–80. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. "Clusters: A New Style of Organization." Clinical Laboratory Management Review 6, no. 6 (November–December 1992): 499–513. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Truth about Empowerment." Training & Development 46, no. 8 (August 1992): 31–32. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. "The Learning Organization." European Management Journal 10, no. 2 (June 1992): 146–156. View Details

Book Chapters
Book Chapters

  • Mills, D. Quinn. "An Opportunity-Based Strategy Process for Innovation." In Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, Marius Liebold, and Sven Voepoel. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Franziska Zellweger. "Management in Perspective: Lessons Learned from Harvard Business School." In E-Learning an Hochschulen. An Beispielen lernen, edited by Dieter Euler and Karl Wilbers, 89–96. Switzerland: Institut für Wirtschaftspädagogik, 2003, German ed. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, Stephan A. Friedrich, Hans H. Hinterhuber, and Dirk Seifert. "The Leader as Partner: A Contrast of European and American Leadership Styles." Chap. 17 in Partnering: The New Face of Leadership, edited by Larraine Segil, Marshall Goldsmith, and James Belasco, 177–186. New York: AMACOM, 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. "The Use of Virtual Classes at Harvard Business School: A Successful Model for Corporate e-Learning." Chap. 13 in Corporate e-Learning. Edited by Reiner Neumann, Ralf Nacke, and Alexander Ross, 171–180. Wiesbaden, Germany: Gabler Verlag, 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. Bruce Friesen. "Empowerment." In Financial Times Handbook of Management, edited by S. Crainer and D. Dearlove. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and J. Pumo. "Managing Change in Higher Education: A Leader's Guide." In Renewing Administration: Preparing Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century, edited by Diana G. Oblinger and Richard N. Katz. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, 1999. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials
Cases and Teaching Materials

  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 307-104, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 307-708, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: America's International Leadership (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 307-082, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: America's International Leadership - Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 307-710, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Julian Kurz. "Siemens Medical Solutions: Strategic Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 703-494, June 2003. (Revised November 2003.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Hal Hogan. "First Marblehead Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 303-052, September 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "First Marblehead Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-069, January 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (C)." Harvard Business School Case 301-138, June 2001. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 301-137, June 2001. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-136, June 2001. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Paul Clark. "Honeywell Defense Avionics." Harvard Business School Case 396-379, May 1996. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000." Harvard Business School Case 495-001, September 1994. (Revised September 1994.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Giordano Holdings Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 495-002, June 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, G. Bruce Friesen, and Richard C. Wei. "Letter from an Investment Banker." Harvard Business School Case 494-061, June 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson, and Richard C. Wei. "ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 494-075, January 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (B)." Harvard Business School Case 491-068, June 1991. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (A) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-030, November 1989. (Revised February 1991.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Waltergate (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-032, November 1990. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Waltergate (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 491-033, November 1990. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Du Pont Fibers Department Information Systems (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-031, December 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "Note on How Organizations Can be Structured." Harvard Business School Background Note 490-040, December 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "NYNEX: An Executive Development Process." Harvard Business School Case 490-020, November 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-009, November 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Du Pont Fibers Department Information Systems." Harvard Business School Case 489-023, June 1989. (Revised July 1989.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "People Express, Update - January 1989." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-022, March 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-067, February 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-099, February 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-096, January 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-097, January 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-098, January 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G Bruce Friesen. "Sun Refining and Marketing Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 488-004, July 1987. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G Bruce Friesen. "Sun Refining and Marketing Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 488-005, July 1987. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Detained Employee." Harvard Business School Case 487-069, March 1987. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "People Express - March 1984." Harvard Business School Supplement 487-043, November 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "People Express - May 1985." Harvard Business School Supplement 487-044, November 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G Bruce Friesen. "American Communications (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 487-031, October 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 683-053, October 1982. (Revised September 1986.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "American Communications (A), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 486-094, March 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Higgins Equipment Co. (B) and (B) (AMP), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 486-059, October 1985. (Revised March 1986.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "American Communications (A)." Harvard Business School Case 486-088, February 1986. (Revised March 1986.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (C)." Harvard Business School Case 679-133, July 1979. (Revised December 1984.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Elizabeth Ament Lipton. "Packard Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 484-110, June 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Elizabeth Ament Lipton. "Packard Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 484-109, June 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "R.S. Means Co., Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 384-238, April 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "R.S. Means Co., Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 384-237, April 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and George W. Baird. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (B)." Harvard Business School Case 484-070, February 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, George W. Baird, and George W. Baird. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (C)." Harvard Business School Case 484-071, February 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "Note on Labor-Management Cooperation." Harvard Business School Background Note 484-044, November 1983. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-023, September 1982. (Revised August 1983.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "Conversion Training at New England Telephone (A)." Harvard Business School Case 383-099, November 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "Conversion Training at New England Telephone (B)." Harvard Business School Case 383-100, November 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (B): Alternatives/Recommended Actions." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-022, September 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-024, September 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (A): Advanced Technology Division." Harvard Business School Case 383-018, August 1982. View Details
  • Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (A)." Harvard Business School Case 682-050, May 1982. View Details
  • Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (B)--West Germany." Harvard Business School Case 682-051, May 1982. View Details
  • Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (C)--Finland." Harvard Business School Case 682-052, May 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 679-131, July 1979. (Revised December 1981.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Reagan Plan, The: Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 382-005, July 1981. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 679-132, July 1979. View Details

Other Publications and Materials
Other Publications and Materials

  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Next Generation Learning via Next Generation Content." MindEdge Press White Paper Series, MindEdge Press, Waltham, MA, December 2005. View Details
All Publications

Daniel Quinn Mills consults with major corporations and governments and lectures about management, leadership, strategy, economics and geopolitics.   He is an expert on the differences between Asian and Western leadership styles.  His most recent article is “Asian and American Leadership Styles:  How They Differ,” published in the Peking University Business Review, August, 2007.  An American, Mills is also a member of the Innovation Council of Malaysia, a ministry level council chaired by the Prime Minister.

During the Vietnam War (1967-1974), Mills was responsible within the federal government for wages, prices, and production in the capital goods industries constituting some 14% of America’s Gross Domestic Product. 

Mills arrived at the Harvard Business School in 1976 having taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1968 to 1975.  He remained at Harvard until 2007.

Mills has been interested in early stage businesses and as a director and investor has helped develop several firms.   He has been a director of a publicly listed company, chairing its audit committee for several years.            

A thought leader, Mills has written books on leadership, geo-politics, investments, capital markets, business strategy, network organizations, demographics, marketing, empowerment, and union relations.  

His most recent book is Democracy and Its Elected Enemies, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press also, Master of Illusions:  Presidential Leadership, Strategic Independence and America’s Public Culture, published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press.   The book explores America’s role in the world in the aftermath of the second Iraqi War.

Other recent books include three studies of executive leadership:  Principles of Management; Leadership:  How to Lead, How to Live; and Principles of Human Resource Management — each published in 2005 and 2006 by MindEdge Press.  

Another book, Having It All:  Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First, published in 2004 by Prentice-Hall, offers an effective approach for people to balancing their work and family lives.

Two books published early in this decade tell the story of equity market manipulations:  Wheel, Deal and Steal:  Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms (published by The Financial Times/Prentice Hall, April 2003) and Buy, Lie and Sell High:  How Investors Lost out on Enron and the Internet Bubble (published in 2002).

A 1996 book, Broken Promises, sets forth the strategy that IBM adopted in the 1990s to turn itself around, while another 1996 work, Staying Afloat, proposes business strategies for the world’s construction companies.

In the early eighties, Mills was one of the first to examine the impact of demographics on management and consumption.  He studied the baby boomers in his book Not Like Our Parents (1987).  Also, he helped start interest in moving from management to leadership in business with his Rebirth of the Corporation (1991), and helped define and establish the new management approach of empowerment through The GEM Principle (1994).

Mills’ earliest books dealt with economics and employee relations.  As a government official he helped bring to a close the cycle of wage-push inflation which damaged the economy in the 1960s and ‘70s, and described these efforts in Government, Labor and Inflation (1975), Industrial Relations in Transition (1984), and his university-level textbook Labor-Management Relations (in five editions).

Widely and often quoted as well as seen in the national media, Mills has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, and been quoted in articles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.  He is a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.

His MA and Ph.D., both in economics, are from Harvard.   Mills received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Books
  • Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills. Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Building World Class Universities in Asia. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. View Details
  • Rosefielde, Steven, and D. Quinn Mills. Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Principles of Management. Waltham, MA: MindEdge Press, 2005. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live. Waltham, MA: MindEdge Press, 2005. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander H., Daniel Quinn Mills, and Dirk Seifert. Collaborative Customer Relationship Management: Taking CRM to the Next Level. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, Sasha Mattu, and Kirstin Hornby. Having It All...And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander, D. Quinn Mills, and Dirk Seifert. Kooperatives Kundenmanagement. Wiesbaden, Germany: Gabler Verlag, 2002, German ed. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. Frankfurt: Galileo Press, 2002, German ed. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. eLeadership. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 2001. (Also published in translated edition in Portuguese, E-Liderazgo, Bilbao: Ediciones Deusto, 2002.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. Internet University Vol. 1: Your Guide to Online College Courses; Vol. 2: Liberal Arts; Vol. 3: Technology; Vol. 4: Graduate Studies; Vol. 5: Business School Edition. Anaheim, CA: Cyber Classics, Inc., 1999. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. The Internet University. Anaheim: BNi Publications, 1999. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. Staying Afloat in the Construction Industry: Economic and Political Trends for the 1990s. Los Angeles: BNi Publications, 1996. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. The GEM Principle. Essex Junction, VT: Oliver Wight Publications, 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. The Empowerment Imperative. Amherst, MA: Human Resource Development Press, 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. Labor-management Relations. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. Rebirth of the Corporation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991. View Details
  • Beer, Michael, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence, and D. Q. Mills. Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program. New York, NY: Free Press, 1984. View Details
Journal Articles
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 27, 2005). (Also published in " Asian Diversity Magazine, December 2005.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Paradigm Lost: The Imperial CEO." Directors & Boards 27, no. 4 (Summer 2003): 41–42. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "How To Stop Another Stock Bubble." Expert-View. International Forum: The Magazine for Staff of Deutsche Bank Group (September 2002), 58. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander, Michael Leyk, D. Quinn Mills, Stefan Ruebke, and Dirk Seifert. "New Ways of Category Management." Harvard Business Manager (April 2002), 98–106. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. "New Concepts for Corporate e-Learning - The Use of Virtual Classes at Harvard Business School As Best Practice." Markt: Journal für Marketing (April 2002). View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Who's to Blame for the Bubble?" Harvard Business Review 79, no. 5 (May 2001): 22–23. View Details
  • Kracklauer, Alexander, D. Quinn Mills, Olaf Passenheim, and Dirk Seifert. "Online-Marketing-Controlling." Markt: Journal für Marketing 40, no. 4 (2001): 151–158. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and I. Somerville. "Leading in a Leaderless World." Leader to Leader 13 (summer 1999): 30–38. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The American Perspective." CEO Report Chief Executive (January–February 1998), 10–13. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Changing Social Contract in American Business." European Management Journal 14, no. 5 (October 1996). View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Decline and Rise of IBM." MIT Sloan Management Review 37, no. 4 (summer 1996). View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The New Management System." European Management Journal 13, no. 3 (September 1995): 251–256. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Role of a Union in a Well-managed Company." LSL SMI Review (summer 1994): 11–14. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "Marketing in der Organization der Zukunft." Absatzwirtschaft (June 1993). View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Changing Workforce." Journal of Corporate Management 45, no. 21 (March–April 1993): 78–80. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. "Clusters: A New Style of Organization." Clinical Laboratory Management Review 6, no. 6 (November–December 1992): 499–513. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "The Truth about Empowerment." Training & Development 46, no. 8 (August 1992): 31–32. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. "The Learning Organization." European Management Journal 10, no. 2 (June 1992): 146–156. View Details
Book Chapters
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "An Opportunity-Based Strategy Process for Innovation." In Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, Marius Liebold, and Sven Voepoel. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Franziska Zellweger. "Management in Perspective: Lessons Learned from Harvard Business School." In E-Learning an Hochschulen. An Beispielen lernen, edited by Dieter Euler and Karl Wilbers, 89–96. Switzerland: Institut für Wirtschaftspädagogik, 2003, German ed. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, Stephan A. Friedrich, Hans H. Hinterhuber, and Dirk Seifert. "The Leader as Partner: A Contrast of European and American Leadership Styles." Chap. 17 in Partnering: The New Face of Leadership, edited by Larraine Segil, Marshall Goldsmith, and James Belasco, 177–186. New York: AMACOM, 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. "The Use of Virtual Classes at Harvard Business School: A Successful Model for Corporate e-Learning." Chap. 13 in Corporate e-Learning. Edited by Reiner Neumann, Ralf Nacke, and Alexander Ross, 171–180. Wiesbaden, Germany: Gabler Verlag, 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and G. Bruce Friesen. "Empowerment." In Financial Times Handbook of Management, edited by S. Crainer and D. Dearlove. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q., and J. Pumo. "Managing Change in Higher Education: A Leader's Guide." In Renewing Administration: Preparing Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century, edited by Diana G. Oblinger and Richard N. Katz. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, 1999. View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 307-104, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 307-708, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: America's International Leadership (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 307-082, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: America's International Leadership - Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 307-710, April 2007. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Julian Kurz. "Siemens Medical Solutions: Strategic Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 703-494, June 2003. (Revised November 2003.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Hal Hogan. "First Marblehead Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 303-052, September 2002. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "First Marblehead Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-069, January 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (C)." Harvard Business School Case 301-138, June 2001. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 301-137, June 2001. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Matt Salloway. "Cerner Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-136, June 2001. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Paul Clark. "Honeywell Defense Avionics." Harvard Business School Case 396-379, May 1996. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000." Harvard Business School Case 495-001, September 1994. (Revised September 1994.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Giordano Holdings Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 495-002, June 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, G. Bruce Friesen, and Richard C. Wei. "Letter from an Investment Banker." Harvard Business School Case 494-061, June 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson, and Richard C. Wei. "ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 494-075, January 1994. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (B)." Harvard Business School Case 491-068, June 1991. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (A) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-030, November 1989. (Revised February 1991.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Waltergate (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-032, November 1990. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Waltergate (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 491-033, November 1990. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Du Pont Fibers Department Information Systems (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-031, December 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Q. "Note on How Organizations Can be Structured." Harvard Business School Background Note 490-040, December 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "NYNEX: An Executive Development Process." Harvard Business School Case 490-020, November 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 490-009, November 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Du Pont Fibers Department Information Systems." Harvard Business School Case 489-023, June 1989. (Revised July 1989.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "People Express, Update - January 1989." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-022, March 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-067, February 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-099, February 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (A)." Harvard Business School Case 489-096, January 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-097, January 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-098, January 1989. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G Bruce Friesen. "Sun Refining and Marketing Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 488-004, July 1987. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G Bruce Friesen. "Sun Refining and Marketing Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 488-005, July 1987. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Detained Employee." Harvard Business School Case 487-069, March 1987. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "People Express - March 1984." Harvard Business School Supplement 487-043, November 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "People Express - May 1985." Harvard Business School Supplement 487-044, November 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G Bruce Friesen. "American Communications (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 487-031, October 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 683-053, October 1982. (Revised September 1986.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "American Communications (A), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 486-094, March 1986. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "Higgins Equipment Co. (B) and (B) (AMP), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 486-059, October 1985. (Revised March 1986.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and G. Bruce Friesen. "American Communications (A)." Harvard Business School Case 486-088, February 1986. (Revised March 1986.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (C)." Harvard Business School Case 679-133, July 1979. (Revised December 1984.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Elizabeth Ament Lipton. "Packard Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 484-110, June 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Elizabeth Ament Lipton. "Packard Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 484-109, June 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "R.S. Means Co., Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 384-238, April 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "R.S. Means Co., Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 384-237, April 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and George W. Baird. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (B)." Harvard Business School Case 484-070, February 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, George W. Baird, and George W. Baird. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (C)." Harvard Business School Case 484-071, February 1984. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "Note on Labor-Management Cooperation." Harvard Business School Background Note 484-044, November 1983. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-023, September 1982. (Revised August 1983.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "Conversion Training at New England Telephone (A)." Harvard Business School Case 383-099, November 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and E. Mary Lou Balbaky. "Conversion Training at New England Telephone (B)." Harvard Business School Case 383-100, November 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (B): Alternatives/Recommended Actions." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-022, September 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-024, September 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Mary Lou Balbaky. "LEP Corp. (A): Advanced Technology Division." Harvard Business School Case 383-018, August 1982. View Details
  • Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (A)." Harvard Business School Case 682-050, May 1982. View Details
  • Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (B)--West Germany." Harvard Business School Case 682-051, May 1982. View Details
  • Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (C)--Finland." Harvard Business School Case 682-052, May 1982. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 679-131, July 1979. (Revised December 1981.) View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Reagan Plan, The: Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 382-005, July 1981. View Details
  • Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard O. von Werssowetz. "Coal Strike of 1977-78 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 679-132, July 1979. View Details
Other Publications and Materials
  • Mills, D. Quinn. "Next Generation Learning via Next Generation Content." MindEdge Press White Paper Series, MindEdge Press, Waltham, MA, December 2005. View Details
Research Summary
Securities Industry
I have recently published two books about the bull market of the 1990s. The first deals with the internet bubble; the second deals with the large company financial reporting scandals. Both books consider the events, causes (including matters of ethics) , and what might be done about the situation.
Work/family
I have just published, in 2004, a book on how professionals might manage the challenge of balancing work and family demands. The book is oriented not at the problem, which is often dealt with in publications by others, but with six steps for dealing with it.
Areas of Interest
  • capital markets
  • global
  • leadership
  • venture capital
  • work/family balance
  • Additional Topics
  • electronic commerce
  • innovation
  • marketing
  • Industries
  • accounting industry
  • banking
  • brokerage
  • computer
  • construction
  • consulting
  • e-commerce industry
  • education industry
  • information technology industry
  • investment banking industry
  • management consulting
  • professional services
  • publishing industry
  • venture capital industry
  • Geographies
  • Arabian peninsula
  • Asia
  • China
  • East Asia
  • Eastern Europe
  • Europe
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • North America
  • Russian Federation
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Western Europe

Areas of Interest

capital markets
global
leadership
venture capital
work/family balance
 More

Additional Topics

electronic commerce
innovation
marketing

Industries

accounting industry
banking
brokerage
computer
construction
consulting
e-commerce industry
education industry
information technology industry
investment banking industry
management consulting
professional services
publishing industry
venture capital industry

Geographies

Arabian peninsula
Asia
China
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Europe
Germany
Japan
North America
Russian Federation
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Western Europe
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