Professor D. Quinn Mills, Harvard Business School
D. Quinn Mills is the Alfred J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business
Administration at the Harvard Business School. He consults
Fortune 500 corporations and teaches leadership, strategy, marketing
and financial investments at the Harvard Business School.
Professor Mills earned his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard, both in economics,
and began teaching at Harvard Business School in 1976. He taught
at MIT’s Sloan School of Management between 1968 and 1975,
before which he spent several years in Washington DC helping to
control inflation during the Vietnam War. He is a member of the
Panel of Thought Leaders of the Peter Drucker Foundation.
Throughout his career, Professor Mills has been a prolific author, publishing over 25 books in the fields of leadership, management, strategy, finance, marketing, corporate governance and economics. Among others, he is author of “Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs and Ineffective Reforms” and “Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble”. His two recent books were “Leadership: How To Lead How To Live” and “Principles of Management”. Professor Mills’ latest book is “Human Resource Management”, which will be published this fall. He is widely and often quoted as well as seen in the media. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.
Professor Mills’ relevant experience includes 25 years leading high potential and senior-level leadership development programs for approximately 7,500 employees at General Electric, as well as his current work running a high-potential development program for 350 participants at Boeing. He has vast experience providing executive education and consulting to other Fortune 500 firms, such as IBM, Alcoa, Sears, Honeywell and Fannie Mae, as well as companies and government bodies in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China and Malaysia. In China and Malaysia, he has led several “Mini-MBA” programs for managers at leading organizations. In addition to his teaching experience in the Middle East, he developed a depth of regional insight through his appointment as the United Nations’ Special Senior Housing Representative to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He also served as Chairman of the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee, a U.S. government body that regulated construction activity during Vietnam War and, in the 1980’s, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the U.S. National Commission for Employment Policy.
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