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Rosabeth Moss-Kanter

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Business School Professor

One of the world’s leading business thinkers, her work on leadership and change has influenced executives and entrepreneurs all over the world

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Listed by the Times newspaper as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world she is a Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author. She introduced the concept of empowerment to the corporate world and writes on a huge range of issues including success and corporate social responsibility.

Biography

Rosabeth Moss-Kanter’s background

Rosabeth Moss-Kanters work has had a huge impact on the business world and has helped to change the way many organizations treat employees. She set out as a sociologist but is now a professor at Harvard Business School. She hit the management headlines in 1977 with her first book, Men and Women of the Corporation, which was awarded best book of the year on social issues. It introduced the concept of empowerment with which she has been associated ever since.

Her many books embrace complex ideas and are supported by a wealth of research. She tackles a wide range of issues which impinge on modern corporate life including; managing change, strategy, innovation and leadership.

She was the last academic to edit the Harvard business review to which she regularly contributes. Her 2011 HBR article, “How Great Companies Think Differently,” won a McKinsey Award for best article.

Her 2013 book SuperCorp based on a 3 year worldwide research programme, looks at how a new generation of values-driven businesses do well while still maintaining a social conscience. Other books include Confidence – a book about why winners succeed based on the study of leading companies such as Continental Airlines, Seagate, and Verizon.

She is chair of the consultancy Goodmeasure which has worked with IBM, Gap Inc., Monsanto, British Airways, and Volvo. In 1988 she was advisor to the Democrat Michael Dukakis during his presidential campaign.

Awards, Accolades, Achievements, Honours

A Guggenheim Fellowship
The Scholarly Contributions to Management Award 2001 from the Academy of Management
The Intelligent Community Forum’s Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year Award 2002.
Good Housekeeping magazine named her one of the “125 women who changed our world”
Boston Magazine called her one of the “50 most powerful women in Boston”
She was the top-ranking woman in a 2002 study of Top Business Intellectuals.
She holds 23 honorary degrees and has an award in her name which is given in recognition of the best piece of work-family research.

Current/Past Roles and Positions

Professor at Harvard Business School and former editor of the Harvard Business Review
Author of 18 highly influential management books including SuperCorp and Men and Women of the Corporation.
Named in the top 50 business thinkers by Thinkers 50 2011
One of the few women in recent years to have achieved genuine guru status’ The Economist

Speaking Style

With boundless enthusiasm and a powerful command of ideas, she continually engages with the issues of the day and keeps her audiences riveted.

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Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world’s complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism. Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set of companies using their power not only for profits and sustainable growth but also social good. If you think business corporations are doomed to be lumbering, bloated, and corrupt, think again.

Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition

In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyzes how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.

America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless ways—red or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. What happened to America as the land of freedom and openness? In America the Principled, renowned Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter tackles the hardest questions our nation faces, and challenges us to recommit ourselves to pursuing our nation’s noblest goals: equality and opportunity.