Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter ( born March 15, 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American sociologist and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Work

Rosabeth Moss Kanter's main research areas are corporate governance, strategy, innovation, change management and diversity management. From 1989 to 1992 she was co-editor of Harvard Business Review.

Kanter received her Ph.D. 1967 by the University of Michigan. In the 1970s she studied positions and career paths of women and men in an American industrial companies. In Men and Women of the Corporation uses the term token for minorities in groups.

In 1979 she received the McKinsey Award for the article Power Failure in Management curcuits. Mid-1980s, took over as the first woman Kanter an endowed chair at Harvard Business School ( " Chair of Organizational Behaviour, endowed by the Class of 1960" ).

Your other scientific stations were the Yale University, Brandeis University and Harvard Law School. Since 2001, awarded three U.S. research institutions together the " Kanter Award for Excellence in Work / Family research". Kanter writes the biweekly column " Business of America" ​​for the Miami Herald.

She is married to Barry Stone and has a son ( Matthew Moss Kanter Stone, born 1979 ).

Awards

• Charles Wright Mills Award for Men and Women of the Corporation, 1977
• McKinsey award for best HBR article, 1979
• Academy of Management 's Distinguished Career Award, 2001

Writings (selection )

• Men and Women of the Corporation. Basic books, New York 1977.
• When giants learn to dance. Mastering the Challenges of Strategy, Management, and Careers in the 1990s. Simon and Schuster, New York 1989.
• The Challenge of Organizational Change. How Companies experience it and leaders guide it. Free Press, New York 1992.