Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born 1943) is a tenured professor in business at Harvard Business School, where she holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship. In the 2007-2008 Academic school year, she taught a course to MBA students entitled Managing Change.

A 1967 Ph.D graduate of the University of Michigan, she has written numerous books on business management techniques, particularly change management. She also has a regular column in the Miami Herald. She is known for her classic 1977 study of tokenism - how being a minority in a group can affect one's performance due to enhanced visibility and performance pressure. Her study of men and women of the corporation also became a classic in critical management studies and bureaucracy analysis. Kanter was #11 in a 2000s survey of Top 50 Business Intellectuals by citation in several sources.

Bibliography

• Kanter, Rosabeth M. (1972) Commitment and Community: Communes and utopias in sociological perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Kanter, Rosabeth M. (1977) Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.
• Kanter, Rosabeth M. (1983) The Change Masters: Corporate Entrepreneurs At Work,London,Unwin Paper Backs.
• Kanter, Rosabeth M. (2006) Innovation: the classic traps, Harvard Business Review.
• Kanter, Rosabeth M. (2009) SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good. New York: Crown.

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