Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter's current research topics include: leadership for the digital age, including the circumstances that empower leaders to create change; leadership of turnarounds and other significant changes of direction; and the role, legitimacy, and impact of the multinational corporation in the developed and developing world.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations, governments, and start-up ventures. She co-founded the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative, guiding its planning from 2005 to its launch in 2008 and serving as Founding Chair and Director from 2008-2018 as it became a growing international model for a new stage of higher education preparing successful top leaders to apply their skills to national and global challenges. Author or co-author of 20 books, her latest book is Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time.

The former chief Editor of Harvard Business Review, Professor Kanter has been repeatedly named to lists such as the “50 most powerful women in the world” (Times of London), and the “50 most influential business thinkers in the world” (Thinkers 50, and in November 2019 received their biannual Lifetime Achievement Award). She has received 24 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards, lifetime achievement awards, and prizes. These include Distinguished Career Awards from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association (Organizations, Occupations and Work Section); the World Teleport Association's “Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year” award; the Pinnacle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; the International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals; the Warren Bennis Award for Leadership Excellence; the Everett Rogers Innovation Award from the Norman Lear Center for media and society; and several Harvard Business Review McKinsey Awards for the years’ best articles. Other awards honor her thought leadership and community impact.

Before Think Outside the Building, her previous book, MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, is a sweeping look across industries and technologies shaping the future of mobility and the leadership required for transformation. Her book The Change Masters was named one of the most influential business books of the 20th century (Financial Times); SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, one of the ten best business books of the year by Amazon.com; Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, one of the five best books of the year by the Toronto Star. Her book Confidence: How Winning & Losing Streaks Begin & End, a New York Times bestseller (also a #1 Business Week bestseller), describes the culture of high-performance organizations compared with those in decline and shows how to lead turnarounds, whether in businesses, schools, sports teams, or countries. Men & Women of the Corporation, winner of the C. Wright Mills award for the best book on social issues and often called a classic, offers insight into the individual and organizational factors that promote success or perpetuate disadvantage for women; a related video, A Tale of ‘O’: On Being Different, is a widely-used tool for diversity training. A related book, Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda, honored by a coalition of university centers creating in her honor the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for the best work/family research. Another award-winning book, When Giants Learn to Dance, shows how to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age. World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy identifies the dilemmas of globalization for cities, a theme continuing in her book MOVE.

She advises numerous CEOs and senior executives through her consulting group and also serving as a Senior Advisor for IBM’s Global Citizenship portfolio from 1999-2012. She has served on many business and non-profit boards, such as City Year, the urban “Peace Corps” addressing the school dropout crisis through national service, and on commissions including the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, the U.S. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and others. She speaks widely, and has shared the platform with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs at major events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and national industry conferences in over 20 countries. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, she held tenured professorships at Yale University and Brandeis University and was a Fellow at Harvard Law School, simultaneously holding a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan.

Featured Work
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.

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies the leadership paradigm of the future: the ability to "think outside the building" to overcome establishment paralysis and produce significant innovation for a better world.

Kanter provides extraordinary accounts of the successes and near-stumbles of purpose-driven men and women from diverse backgrounds united in their conviction that positive change is possible.

A former Trader Joe's executive, for example, navigated across business, government, and community sectors to deal with poor nutrition in inner cities while reducing food waste. A concerned European banker used the power of persuasion, not position, to find novel financing for improving the health of the oceans. A Washington couple enticed global partners to join an Uber-like platform to match skilled refugees with talent-hungry companies. A visionary journalist-turned-entrepreneur closed social divides by giving fifty million social media users access to free local education and culture.

When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.
MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer, an entrepreneur, an online shopper, a job-seeker, or a community leader. If people can't move, if goods are delayed, and if information networks can't connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates and social inequity grows.

We have been stuck for too long, writes Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In Move, Kanter visits cities and states across the country to tackle our challenges―and reveal solutions―on the roads and rails, and in our cities, skies, and the halls of Washington, D.C. We meet a visionary engineer and public servant spearheading an underwater tunnel in Miami to streamline port operations and redirect constant traffic from the city center. We see mayors partnering with large corporations and nimble entrepreneurs to unveil parking apps, bike-sharing programs, and seamless Wi-Fi networks in greener, more vibrant, more connected cities. And we learn about much-needed efforts―such as dynamic tolls on highways and fees based on vehicle miles traveled―to reduce our dependence on the outmoded gasoline tax in our new electric car age.

It all adds up to a new vision for American mobility, where local leaders shape initiatives without waiting for Congress to act, and ambitious companies partner with governments to tackle projects that serve the public good, create jobs, and improve quality of life while providing healthy sources of investment. With unique insight and unrivaled expertise, Kanter gives us a sweeping look across America, revealing the innovative projects, vital leaders, and bold solutions that are moving our transportation infrastructure toward a cleaner, faster, and more prosperous future.

Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin & End
Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again? There's a fundamental principle at work -- confidence -- that makes the difference between winning and losing in any competition. Based on investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines and Verizon and sports teams such as the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the arenas of education, health care, and politics, Kanter expores a new theory and practice of success and provides people in leadership postiions with a prescriptive program for maintaining a winning streak or turning around a downward spiral.
SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

Supercorp is based on a 3-year study involving more than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck India in 2006, IBM did not just write a check. It used its core competence-expertise in technology-and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial in avoiding the all-too-familiar problem in disaster relief-chaos and mobs of desperate people. IBM's actions, as well as many others reported on by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, capture the emerging zeitgeist of business: the vanguard company simultaneously pursuing-and creating synergy between-opportunity, growth, profit, humanistic values and social good. Vanguard companies have a sense of mission enabling them to deliver what their customers want in a way that is significantly better than the competition. As a formula for the future it brings together the necessity of financial success shareholders demand and the social conscience demanded from the new generation moving up the corporate ranks.

The Change Masters
Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation

 

The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell, to describe their organizational structures, their corporate cultures, and their specific strategies. 

Advanced Leadership Initiative

At Harvard, Rosabeth Moss Kanter is chair and director of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, a University-wide faculty group aimed at deploying a leadership force of experienced leaders who can address challenging national and global problems in their next stage of life.

The goal of the Advanced Leadership Fellowship is to prepare experienced leaders to transition from their primary income-earning years to community and public service for their next years of life. The Fellowship is designed to enhance and leverage the skills of already accomplished leaders for maximum impact on significant social problems, including those that affect health and welfare, children and the environment.

Books
Journal Articles
Book Chapters
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Taking Leadership to a New Place: Outside-the-Building Thinking to Improve the World." Chap. 3 in The Business of Building a Better World: The Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything, edited by David L. Cooperrider and Audrey Selian. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2021. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Fox. "Understanding Confidence: Its Roots and Role in Performance." Chap. 4 in Critical Mindfulness: Exploring Langerian Models, edited by Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, 55–67. Springer, 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli. "How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities." Chap. 2 in The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities, edited by David J. Teece and Sohvi Leih. Oxford University Press, 2015. Electronic. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "How Purpose-based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic Approach to Global Social Change." Chap. 5 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Chap. 3 in Towards a New Theory of the Firm: Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession, edited by Joan Enric Ricart Costa and Josep Maria Rosanas Marti, 79–108. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2012. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Re-Developing Leaders: The Harvard Advanced Leadership Experiment in Even Higher Education." In The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana, 507–524. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Leadership in a Globalizing World." Chap. 20 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership." In Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Rakesh Khurana. "Position and Emotion: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Leadership and Organizational Behavior." In Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, edited by Paul S. Adler. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2009. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Corporate Conduct Continuum: From 'Do No Harm' to 'Do Lots of Good'." Chap. 14 in The Virtuous Organization: Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers, edited by Charles C. Manz, Kim S. Cameron, Karen P. Manz, and Robert D. Marx, 279–286. Singapore, New Jersey, and London: World Scientific, 2008. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "When Giants Discover the Disadvantaged." In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "How Cosmopolitan Leaders Build Confidence: A Profile of the Future." In The Leader of the Future, edited by F. Hesselbein, M. Goldsmith, and R. Beckhard. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Beyond the Myth of Separate Worlds." Foreword to The Work and Family Handbook, edited by M. Pitt-Catsouphes, E.E. Kossek, and S. Sweet. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "How Leaders Restore Confidence." In Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out, edited by Robert Gandossy and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, 39 – 49. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Can Higher Education 'Evolve'?" In The Internet and the University, edited by M. Devlin, R. Larson, and J. Meyerson, pp. 39–80. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE, 2003. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Getting the Best from Best Practices." Introduction to Best Practice: Ideas and Insights from the World's Foremost Business Thinkers, edited by Tom Brown and Robert Heller. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Creating the Culture for Innovation." In Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results, edited by Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and Iain Somerville. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Kaleidoscope Thinking." In Management 21C, Someday We'll All Manage This Way, edited by S. Chowdhury, 250–61. Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Why the Battle Was Won, but the War Was Lost: An Organizational Change Perspective." In Car Launch: The Human Side of Managing Change, edited by G. Roth and A. Kleiner, 137–47. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." Common Interest, Common Good, edited by Shirley Sagawa and Eli Segal. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Small Business and Economic Growth." In The Rising Tide, edited by J. J. Jasinowski. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Politicization of Organizational Life." In Organization Development Classics: The Practice and Theory of Change, edited by D. F. Van Eynde, J. C. Hoy, and C. D. VanEynde. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Imagination to Innovate, the Professionalism to Perform, and the Openness to Collaborate: The Leading the Change-Adept Organization." In Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management, by R. M. Kanter. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Restoring People to the Heart of the Organization of the Future." In The Organization of the Future, edited by F. Hesselbein, M. Goldsmith, and D. Beckhard, 139–50. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "World Class Leaders: The Power of Partnering." In The Leader of the Future, edited by F. Hesselbein, M. Goldsmith, and R. Beckhard, 89–98. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Preface." Preface to Mary Parker Follett--Prophet of Management: A Celebration of Writings from the 1920s , edited by Pauline Graham. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." Innovative Reward Systems for Changing Companies, edited by Thomas Wilson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Afterword." Afterword to Global Strategy, edited by P. Barnevik and R. M. Kanter. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "U.S. Competitiveness and the Aging Workforce: Toward Organizational and Institutional Change." In Aging and Competition: Rebuilding the U.S. Workforce, edited by J. A. Auerbach and J.C. Welch. Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association, 1994. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life, edited by Nancy Nichols. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Comprehensive Change Strategies: Beyond Piecemeal Projects." In Manufacturing Europe 1994: The International Review of Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Management, edited by Peter Dempsey, 167–69. London: Sterling Publications, 1993. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The View from the 1990s: How the Global Economy is Reshaping Corporate Power and Careers." In Men and Women of the Corporation, by R. M. Kanter. New York: Basic Books, 1977. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." The 100 Best Companies for Minorities, edited by Lawrence Otis Graham and Pamela Thomas Graham. New York: Plume, 1993. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Global Manager." In The Portable MBA in Management, edited by A. R. Cohen. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." Church Leadership, edited by Lowell Weems. New York: Abingdon Press, 1993. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Relevance of Network Research for Practitioners." In Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action, edited by N. Nohria and R. C. Eccles. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and R. G. Eccles. "Making Network Research Relevant to Practice." In Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action, edited by N. Nohria and R. C. Eccles. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." The Management of Participation, edited by Laura Spencer. Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1991. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Future of Bureaucracy and Hierarchy in Organizational Theory: A Report from the Field." In Social Theory for a Changing Society, edited by P. Bourdieu and J. Coleman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. (University of Chicago/Russell Sage Foundation Conference on "Social Theory and Emerging Issues for a Changing Society," April 1989.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Improving the Acceptance and Use of New Technology: Organizational and Inter-organizational Challenges." In Designing for Technological Change, edited by B. Guile, E. Laumann, and G. Nadler. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1991. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Banc One Corporation, 1989." In The Service Management Course, by C. Hart, J. Heskett, and W. E. Sasser Jr.. NY: Free Press, 1990. (Reprintings include Leaders on Leadership, edited by W. Bennis. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992; The Challenge of Organizational Change, edited by R.M. Kanter, B.A. Stein, and T.D. Jick. N.Y.: Free Press, 1992.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and P. S. Myers. "Inter-organizational Bonds and Intra-organizational Behavior: How Alliances and Partnerships Change the Organizations Forming Them." In Socio-Economics: Toward a New Synthesis, edited by P. R. Lawrence and A. Etzione. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Careers and the Wealth of Nations: A Macro-Perspective on the Structure and Implications of Careers." In Handbook of Career Theory, edited by M. Arthur, D. T. Hall, and B. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press, 1989. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The New Alliances: How Strategic Partnerships are Reshaping American Business." In Business in the Contemporary World, edited by H. Sawyer. University Press of America, Inc., 1988. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Managing Change in Innovative Organizations." In Productivity and Quality Through Science and Technology, edited by Y. K. Shetty and V. M. Buehler. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1988. (Reprinted in The Quest for Competitiveness, edited by Y.K. Shetty and V.M. Buehler. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1991.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Structural, Collective, and Social Conditions for Innovation in Organizations." In Research in Organizational Behavior. Vol. 22, edited by B. Staw and R. Sutton. Elsevier Science, 2000. (Reprintings include: The Evolution and Adaptation of Organizations, edited by B. Staw and L.L. Cummings. Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1990; Knowledge Management and Organizational Design, edited by P.S. Myers. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996, pp. 93-132; Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View, edited by R. Swedberg. Oxford University Press, 2000.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Change Master Skills: What it Takes to be Creative." In Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers, edited by R. L. Kuhn. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Change Master Companies: Environments in which Innovations Flourish." In Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers, edited by R. L. Kuhn. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Encouraging Innovation and Entrepreneurs in Bureaucratic Companies." In Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers, edited by R. L. Kuhn. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Doing Well While Doing Good: Dilemmas of Performance Measurement in Nonprofit Organizations and the Need for a Multiple Constituency Approach." In Handbook of Nonprofit Organizations, edited by W. Powell and P. DiMaggio. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Providing the Corporate Environment to Foster Innovation." In How to Compete beyond the 1980's: Perspectives from High Performance Companies. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1985. (edited by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Stimulating and Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Auto Industry Connection." In Entrepreneurship in a "Mature Industry", edited by J. Campbell.Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 1985. (Keynote address for the U.S.-Japan Auto Industry Conference.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Mastering Change: The Skills we Need." In Not as Far as You Think: The Realities of Working Women, edited by L. Moore. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Variations in Managerial Career Structures in High Technology Firms: The Impact of Organizational Characteristics on Internal Labor Market Patterns." In International Labor Markets, edited by P. Osterman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Managing Transitions in Organizational Culture: The Case of Participative Management at Honeywell." In New Futures: The Challenge of Managing Corporate Transitions, edited by J. Kimberly and R. Quinn. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1984. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Power and Enterprise in Action: Corporate Middle Managers as Entrepreneurs." In Work and Occupations: Autonomy, Power and Control, edited by M. Cantor and P. Steward. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 1982. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and M. G. Cox. "The Social Psychology of Organizations." In A Social Problems Perspective on Social Psychology, edited by D. Perlman and C. Cozby. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Notes on the Meaning of Commitment to Organizations." In Goodmeasure Publications. Cambridge, MA: Goodmeasure, Inc., 1980. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Defining and Experiencing Organizational Structure." In Advances in Experiential Social Processes. Vol. 2, edited by C. Alderfer and C. Cooper. London and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1980. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Dilemmas of Participation: Issues in Organization Design and Management." In Proceedings of the Second National Seminar on Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by Alan F. Westin and Stephan Salisbury. New York: Educational Fund for Individual Rights, 1979. (Also in National Forum, spring 1982.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Changing Organizational Constraints: Toward Promoting Equal Opportunity and Treatment for Women in Public Service Systems." In The United Nations and Decision-Making: The Role of Women. Vol. 2, edited by D. Nicol and M. Croke. New York: United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 1978. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Context for the Individual Rights Issues: Labor Force Trends and Their Implication." In Proceedings of the First National Seminar on Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by Alan F. Westin and Stephan Salisbury. New York: Educational Fund for Individual Rights, 1978. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Romance of Community: Intentional Communities as Intensive Group Experience." In The Intensive Group Experience, edited by M. Rosenbaum and A. Snadowsky. New York: Free Press, 1976. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Women in Organizations: Sex Roles, Group Dynamics, and Change Strategies." In Beyond Sex Roles, edited by A. Sargent. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1976. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." Workplace Democracy, edited by Daniel Zwerdling. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Some Social Issues in the Community Development Corporations Proposal." In The Case for Participatory Democracy, edited by C. G. Bennello and D. Rousseopoulos. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Neo-Freudian Views of Maturity and Bureaucratic Norms." In Vital Problems for American Society, edited by J. A. Winter, J. Rabow, and M. Chesler. New York: Random House, 1968. View Details
Working Papers
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-119, May 2011. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Stanley S. Litow. "Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-141, June 2009. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Rakesh Khurana, and Nitin Nohria. "Moving Higher Education to the Next Stage: A New Set of Societal Challenges, a New Stage of Life, and a Call to Action for Universities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-021, November 2005. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Principals As Innovators: Identifying Fundamental Skills for Leadership of Change in Public Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-076, June 2005. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Measurement of Organizational Effectiveness, Productivity, Performance, and Success: Issues and Dilemmas in Service and Non-Profit Organizations." PONPO Working Paper, No. 9, September 1979. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and D. Brinkerhoff. "Formal Systems of Appraisal of Individual Performance: Some Considerations, Critical Issues, and Applications to Non-Profit Organizations." PONPO Working Paper, No. 10, September 1979. (Yale University, Program on Non-Profit Organizations (PONPO), Institution for Social and Policy Studies.) View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
Advanced Leadership Pathways
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Benjamin Summers. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture." Harvard Business School Case 316-054, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., Daniella Suarez, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 316-055, November 2015. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-116, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World." Harvard Business School Case 314-030, September 2013. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-037, February 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Peter Zimmerman, and Penelope Rossano. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Doug Rauch and the Daily Table." Harvard Business School Case 316-105, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-036, February 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone, and Daniella Suarez. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 313-116, April 2013. (Revised November 2015.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein Opens Connections in Brazil." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 313-128, April 2013. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone, and Oludamilola Aladesanmi. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Harvey Freishtat and Conversations about End-of-Life Care." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-050, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-119, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-122, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone, and Sibel Yalman. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: John Dubinsky and the St. Louis Contractor Loan Fund." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-118, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone, and Tessa Natanay Hamilton. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-038, April 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-035, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Pamela Yatsko. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Mahendra Bapna and Technology Education in India." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-163, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Mike Critelli and Dossia Service Corporation." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-053, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Mike Critelli and Dossia Service Corporation." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note 316-117, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Sibel Yalman, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Paul Lee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Rakesh Khurana, and Daniel Penrice. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge." Harvard Business School Case 315-057, December 2014. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-033, February 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek – Lighting Liberia." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-034, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-059, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Sibel Yalman, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Whelan and the Student Loan Crisis (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-064, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Tom Santel and a Community Based Approach to Early Childhood Health." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-063, March 2016. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M., Sibel Yalman, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Torsten Thiele and the Global Ocean Trust." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note 316-123, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Brian Hoffstein. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Torsten Thiele and the Global Ocean Trust." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-039, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.) View Details
Presentations
  • "How Miami Can Become a Global Climate Solutions Hub." Miami-Dade Beacon Council, February 21, 2023. View Details
  • Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Values Investing: How Companies Create Innovation, Profits, & Social Good." Bentley University Center for Business Ethics, Waltham, MA, May 1, 2010. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Mastering Change." In Mobilizing Corporate Energies. Paper presented at the St. Gallen Symposium, St. Gallen, Switzerland, January 01, 1993. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Future of Bureaucracy and Hierarchy in Organizational Theory: A Report from the Field." In Social Theory and Emerging Issues in a Changing Society. Paper presented at the University of Chicago/Russell Sage Foundation Conference, April 01, 1989. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The New Workforce Meets the Changing Workplace: Strains, Dilemmas, and Contradictions in Attempts to Implement Participative and Entrepreneurial Management." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 01, 1985. (Reprintings include: Human Resource Management, vol. 25 (Winter 1986); The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives, edited by K.T. Erikson and S.P. Vallas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990; Creative Personnel Practices, edited by J.N. Matzer. Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association, 1988.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Architecture of Organizational Change: Linking Micro to Macro in the Change Process." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Diego, August 01, 1985. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Ensuring Minority Achievement in Corporations: The Importance of Structural Theory and Structural Change." Paper presented at the Rutgers Conference on Minorities in Business, September 01, 1984. (Reprinted in Ensuring Minority Success in Corporate Management, edited by N. DiTomaso. N.Y.: Plenum, 1987.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Frontiers for Strategic Human Resource Planning and Management." Paper presented at the Conference on Strategic Management of Human Resources, University of Michigan, January 01, 1983. (Reprinted in Human Resource Management, vol. 22 (spring/summer 1983), pp. 9-21.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Social Indicators of the Changing Relationship of Individuals and Organizations." Paper presented at the Social Science Research Council Conference on Social Indicators, December 01, 1981. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Development and Transmission of New Workplace Structures: Organizational and Market Characteristics of Innovating Corporations." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, August 01, 1981. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Contemporary Organizations." Paper presented at the Common Learning: A Carnegie Colloquium on General Education, University of Chicago, April 01, 1981. (Reprinted in Common Learning: A Carnegie Colloquium on General Education, edited by E. Boyer. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Foundation, 1981, pp. 74-93.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and B. A. Stein. "Value Change and the Public Workforce: Labor Force Trends and the Salience of Opportunity and Power." Paper presented at the Public Management Research Conference, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC, November 01, 1980. (Also in The Changing Character of the Public Workforce. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 1981, pp. 66-80 (with B.A. Stein). Reprintings include Current Issues in Public Administration, edited by F.S. Lane. N. Y.: St. Martins, 1982; Developing Organizational and Human Resources in the Turbulent 1980s, edited by D.B. Gutknecht and J. Loorum. University Press of America, 1984.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Power and Change in and by Organizations: Setting Intellectual Directions for Organizational Sociology." In Occupations, Labor Markets and Firms. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 01, 1980. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and A. R. Cohen. "The Impact of Public and Private Institutional Policies on Families: The Work Place." Paper presented at the White House Conference on Families, Washington, DC, January 01, 1980. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Organizational Locations as a Link between Structure and Behavior: General Considerations and the Case of Opportunity and Power." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 01, 1979. (Thematic (Invited) Session on Complex Organizations, Boston, August 1979. Also in Developing Organizational and Human Resources in the Turbulent 1980s, edited by D.B. Gutknecht and J. Loorum University Press of America, 1984.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., B. A. Stein, D. Brinkerhoff, and Daniel J. Isenberg. "Can Industrial Workers Reform Their Own Work? A Sociologically-Oriented Quality-of-Worklife Project in an Electronics Factory." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 01, 1979. (Published as "Building Participatory Democracy within a Conventional Corporation." In Workplace Democracy, edited by J. Rothschild-Whitt and F. Lindenfield, Boston: Porter Sargent, 1982.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Changing the Shape of Work: Reform in Academe." In Current Issues in Higher Education: 1979 Conference Series. Paper presented at the American Association for Higher Education Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 01, 1979. (Keynote Address.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Powerlessness Corrupts: Structural Influences on Organizational Behavior." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 01, 1978. (Also in Life in Organizations. N.Y.: Basic Books, 1979.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Impact of Organizational Structure: Models and Methods for Change." Paper presented at the International Conference on Implementing Equal Pay and Equal Opportunity, Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women, May 01, 1978. (Also in Equal Opportunity Policy for Women, edited by R.S. Ratner. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Changing Shape of Work: Psychosocial Trends in America." Paper presented at the American Association for Higher Education Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1, 1978. (Also in Current Issues in Higher Education: 1978 National Conference Series. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 1978.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Working and Loving America: Work Systems as a Source of Constraints on Families." Paper presented at the Smithsonian International Symposium, Washington, DC, June 17, 1977. (Published as "Jobs and Families: Impact of Working Roles on Family Life." Children Today (HEW Children's Bureau of Publication), vol. 7 (March-April 1978), pp. 11-16. Reprintings include: Structure and Process: Readings for Introductory Sociology, edited by R.A. Peterson and C.A. Vaughan. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1985; The Adult Years: Continuity and Change. College Park, Md: International University Consortium, 1984; new edition, 1992.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations." Paper presented at the Research Symposium on Social Indicators in Institutional Racism/Sexism, April 01, 1977. (Also published as "Differential Access to Opportunity and Power" in Discrimination in Organizations, edited by R. Alvarez and K.G. Lutterman, Jossey-Bass, 1979.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Organizational Structure and Occupational Role Definition: The Case of Managers." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, September 01, 1976. (Plenary Session for Section on Organizations and Occupations.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Impact of Hierarchial Structures on the Work Behavior of Women and Men." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 01, 1975. (Also in Social Problems, vol. 23 (April 1976), pp. 425-30. Reprintings include: Industrial Relations in a New Age, edited by C. Kerr and P.D. Staudohar. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1986; Sex and Gender Reader, edited by L. Richardson and V.A. Taylor Lexington. Mass.: Heath, 1981; Women and Work: Problems and Perspectives, edited by R. Kahn-Hut, et al. N.Y.: Oxford, 1982.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "A Comparative Framework for Socialization Practices in Traditional and Modern Communes." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Mexico City, November 01, 1974. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., D. K. Weisberg, and D. T. Jaffe. "Coupling, Parenting, and the Presence of Others: Intimate Relationships in Communal Households." Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Montreal, September 01, 1974. (Also presented at the 1974 meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, pp. 433-52 (with D.K. Weisberg and D.T. Jaffe). Reprinted in Family Relationships, edited G.K. Phelen. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1978.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and B. A. Stein. "Social Multiplier Effects in Community Economic Development." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, September 01, 1974. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and B. A. Stein. "The Social Functions of Products and the Nature of Organizations." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, September 01, 1974. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Urban Communes and Family History." Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Denver, April 01, 1974. (Published as "Roots versus Restlessness: Cooperative Households, The City, and Recurrent Issues in American Family Life." Massachusetts Review 17 (summer 1976):331-53.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Women in Organizations: Change Agent Skills." Paper presented at the New Technology in Organization Development Conference, New Orleans, February 01, 1974. (Also in Current Issues and Strategies in Organization Development, edited by W.R. Burke. N.Y.: Behavioral Publications, 1976; Portions published as "On Ending Female Tokenism in T-Groups," Social Change, vol. 5 (1975), pp. 1-3. Reprinted in Sensitivity Training and the Laboratory Approach, edited by R.T. Golembiewski and A. Blumberg. Third Edition. Itasca, IL: Peacock, 1977.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., and M. Halter. "De-Housewifing Women, Domesticating Men: Equality between the Sexes in Urban Communes." Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Montreal, August 01, 1973. (Also in Marriage and Family Interaction, edited by J. Heiss. Second Edition. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1976. (with M. Halter); Reprinted in Modern Sociology: Introductory Readings, edited by P. Worsley London: Penguin, 1978.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Communes, The Family and Sex Roles." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 01, 1972. (Also in Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life, edited by R.M. Kanter N.Y.: Harper and Row, 1973.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M., G. Alperovitz, H. Cox, C. Hampden-Turner, J. Lynch, J. Morey, and C. S. Jencks. "Prospectus for a New City, 1970." In Getting it All Together: Some Group Issues in Communes. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Washington, DC, March 01, 1971. (Published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, vol. 42 (July 1972), pp. 632-43. Reprintings include The Future of the Family, by L.K. Howe N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Also Touchstone Books; Intimacy, Family and Society, and The Family in Transition, by A. Skolnick and J. Skolnick. Second Edition. Little, Brown; Doing Unto Others, by Z. Rubin. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1984.) View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Communes of the Past and Present." Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 01, 1970. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 01, 1967. View Details
  • Kanter, R. M. "The Organization Child: Experience Management in a Nursery School." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, August 01, 1966. (Working Paper No. 16, University of Michigan, Center for Research on Social Organization Also in Sociology of Education, vol. 45 (spring 1972), pp. 186-212. Reprinted in The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education, edited by Purpel and H.A. Giroux. Berkeley, Calif.: McCutchan, 1982.) View Details
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Research Summary
Rosabeth Moss Kanter's current research topics include: leadership for the digital age, including the circumstances that empower leaders to create change; leadership of turnarounds and other significant changes of direction; and the role, legitimacy, and impact of the multinational corporation in the developed and developing world.
Awards & Honors
Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Strategy and General Management category for “Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant” (HBS Case 318-104) with Nancy Hua Dai.
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Squire Patton Boggs Nonprofit Leadership Symposium.
“Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant” (HBS Case 318-104) with Nancy Hua Dai was selected as a Case Centre Bestselling Strategy and General Management Case in 2021.
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected as a 2020 getAbstract International Book Award Winner.
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected by Strategy+Business as one of the Best Business Books on Talent and Leadership in 2020.
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected as a January 2020 Financial Times Business Book of the Month.
Winner of the 2019 Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winner of the 2019 Thought Leader Award from the ISA-Association of Learning Providers.
Winner of the 2019 Hutchens Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
Recipient of the 2016 Journalism Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers for the book, MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015).
Winner of the 2016 Everett M. Rogers Award from the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2015.
Received the 2013 William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award from the Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Won the second place 2011 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2010 for “How Great Companies Think Differently.”
Given the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus for her work on removing barriers to women's inclusion in the corporate and public worlds and for personal service as advisor to Governors and other public officials on economic issues.
Named one of the 125 women who changed our lives over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue celebrating the magazine's 125th anniversary. She was cited for her ground-breaking research on the toll of tokenism, work/family conflicts, fostering diversity, and the creation of successful organizations which has helped women become stronger, more strategic leaders.
Honored with the 2010 International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals at its annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter was honored with the 2010 International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals at their annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
Awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree by Aalborg University, Denmark, in November 2008.
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