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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good. New York: Crown Business, 2009. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. New York: Crown, 2007. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006. (Paperback edition with new Foreword, Epilogue, and Appendix.) View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. New York: Crown Business, 2004. (September) (Also audio-book edition from Random House, e-book editions, and foreign translations: Chinese from Commonwealth; Hebrew from Pecker Publishing; Indonesian from Binarupa; Italian from Guerini; Japanese from Kobunsha; Korean from Golden Bough; Mandarin from Citic; Polish from MT Biznes; Russian from Olymp Business Press; Turkish from BZD Yayincilik; and Spanish from Editorial Norma.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. (Also audio-book edition and e-book editions. Foreign Translations include Chinese (Complex Characters) Yuan-Lio Publishing Company, Taiwan); Chinese (Simplified characters) (China Machine Press, China); Danish: Borsens Forlag; Dutch: Scriptum Books; German: Financial Times/Prentice Hall Germany; Italian: ETAS Libri; Japanese: Shoeisha Co.: Korean: Sejong Books; Spanish: Ediciones Deusto, SA (Spain; worldwide Spanish); Turkish: BZD YAYINCiLIK.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Business Leadership in the Social Sector. Social Enterprise Video Series. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1998. Video. (Nine Videotapes.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M., J. Kao and F. Wiersema, eds. Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking at 3M, GE, DuPont, Pfizer, and Rubbermaid. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. (Translated into Japanese, Korean, Italian and Hebrew.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Leveraging Human Assets. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 1997. Video. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997. (Spanish, Ediciones Paidos Iberica s.a.; German, Carl Hanser Verlag; Dutch, Uitgeverij Contact; Polish, Business Press Sp. ZO.o, Warsaw; Russian, State University of Management in Moscow. Reprinted as Ch. 25 in The Futurist, June 1998.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Partnering. Best Practice Series. Harvard Business School, 1995. Video. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. (German, Veberreuter; Portuguese, Editora Campus; Spanish; Korean, KPI Publishing; Thai; Chinese, Shanghai People's Publishing House. Other reprinting information available from the publisher.) View Details
- Barnevik, P., and R. M. Kanter, eds. Global Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Tale of "O": On Being Different. Goodmeasure, Inc., 1993. Video. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Men and Women of the Corporation. NY: Basic Books, 1993. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., B. Stein, and T. D. Jick. The Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It and Leaders Guide It. New York: Free Press, 1992. (Dutch, Scriptum Books; French, Editions Dunod; Italian, Edizioni Olivares. Selections in Sources: Notable Selections in Sociology, edited by K. Finsterbusch and J.S. Schwartz, Dushkin Publishing, 1995. Other reprinting information available from the publisher.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Great Corporate Balancing Act. BBC, 1991. Video. (Two Videotapes.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Syngeries, Alliances, & New Ventures. Nathan/Tyler Productions. Nathan/Tyler Productions, 1990. Video. (Two Videotapes.) View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. When Giants Learn to Dance: Mastering the Challenges of Strategy, Management, and Careers in the 1990s. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. (Dutch, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian. Chapters 3 & 4 in Strategic Synergy, edited by S.L. Yeung. London: Butterworth Heinemann, 1982. Chapters 5 & 6 in Planning Review.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Managing Change: Dr. Kanter Plays Atlanta. BBC, 1988. Video. View Details
- Dukakis, M. S., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America. New York: Summit Books, 1988. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Change Masters. Newstrack, 1986. Audio. (Two Audio-cassettes.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Art of Innovation: How to Be a Change Master. Nightingale-Conant, 1986. Audio. (Six Audio-cassettes.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Change Masters: Putting the Theory into Action. Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1986. Video. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Change Masters: Understanding the Theory. Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1986. Video. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Middle Manager as Innovator. Harvard Business Review Video Series. MTI Teleprograms, 1984. Video. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Change Masters. Advanced Management Reports, 1984. Audio. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Managing Change, The Human Dimension. Goodmeasure, Inc., 1984. Video. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. The Change Masters: Innovation for Productivity in the American Corporation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. (Translated in Japanese. Reprintings include Chapter 10 in The Political Environment of Public Management, edited by Pollins, 1993. Chapter 9 in Quality and Productivity Management vol. 9, no. 4, 1992, pp. 33-59. Chapter 10 in Contemporary Ideas on Management, edited by J.W. Newstrom and J.L. Pierce. Duluth: University of Minnesota, 1985. Chapter 9 in Readings in Human Resource Management, edited by M. Beer and B. Spector. New York: Free Press, 1985. Chapter 10 in Organizations Close Up, edited by J.L. Gibson, J.M. Ivancevich, and J.H. Donnelly. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc., 1985. Chapter 2 in The Handbook of Research on Educational Administration, edited by D. Griffiths. 1985. Chapters 2 and 6 in The Leader Manager, edited by J. Williamson. Eden Prairie, MN: Wilson Learning Corporation, 1984. Portions of Ch. 12 in Directors and Boards, 1984. Ch. 10 in Management Review.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. PQWL: The Productivity-Quality of Work Life Program. Goodmeasure, Inc., 1981. Video. (Slide-tape and Videotape.) View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M., and B. A. Stein. Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them. New York: Basic Books, 1979. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Financial Support of Women's Programs in 1970s. New York: Ford Foundation, 1979. (Prepared by a committee of the Ford Foundation.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. The Tale of "O": On Being Different. Goodmeasure, Inc., 1979. Video. (Slide-tape, Videotape & Film.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Policy Agenda. Social Science Frontiers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1977. (Reprintings: Chapters 1-3 in Family Business Review (featured classic), vol. 2, spring 1989, pp. 77-114.) View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books, 1977. (Italian, Edizioni Olivares; Japanese, Japan Productivity Center. Excerpts in Working in America, edited by A.S. Wharton, Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield, 1998. Other reprinting information available from publisher.) View Details
- Millman, M. and R. M. Kanter, eds. Another Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Social Life and Social Science. New York: Doubleday, 1975. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., ed. Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. (Reprintings: chapter 2 in The Meaning of Sociology, edited by J.M Charn. Palo Alto, Calif.: Mayfield, 1985; portions in Small Groups and Social Interaction, edited by H.H. Blumberg et al., vol. 2. London: Wiley, 1983; portions in Sociology, edited by R. Perrucci. Minneapolis: Wets, 1983; chapter 3 in Perspectives on the American Community, edited by Roland Warren. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1973 and 1976; chapter 1 in The Family: Its Structure and Functions, edited by Rose Coser. New York: St. Martin's, 1974; chapter 1 in Sociology, Society, and People, edited by R.M. Koss. C.V. Mosby, 1975; and selections in Community and Education, edited by Donald Oliver. San Francisco, 1976.) View Details
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- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 12, 2020). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 30, 2020). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Judy Perry Martinez. "Advanced Leadership Can Change the World: Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative Trains Leaders to Seek and Implement Global Changes." Law Practice Magazine 45, no. 6 (November–December 2019): 36–41. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Why Millennials Are the C-Suite's Secret Weapon for Innovation." Wall Street Journal (online) (October 28, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Real Reason Men and Women Prefer Male Bosses." Wall Street Journal (online) (October 1, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What It Will Take to Fix America's Crumbling Infrastructure." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 11, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Small Wins Go a Long Way in Improving U.S. Rail Transportation." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 12, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "America's Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 14, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "America's Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 15, 2015). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Rosabeth Moss Kanter on How Corporations of the Future Will Behave." Wall Street Journal (online) (July 7, 2014). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Is Tribalism Inevitable?" Huffington Post, The Blog (July 26, 2013). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rosabeth-moss-kanter/is-tribalism-inevitable_b_3661436.html. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Jobs and Social Innovation." Stanford Social Innovation Review 11, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 34–36. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Revitalizing America: Whatever the Question, National Service Is an Answer." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 13, 2013). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eother:kanterservice. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Evolve (Again)." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 36. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Enriching the Ecosystem." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Courage in the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 12 (December 2011). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "How Great Companies Think Differently." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Cure for Horrible Bosses." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 10 (October 2011). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Book review of Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank, by David Strang." American Journal of Sociology 116, no. 6 (May 2011). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Zoom In, Zoom Out." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter." Alabama Law Review 62, no. 5 (2011). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Work Pray Love." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "How to Do Well and Do Good." MIT Sloan Management Review 52, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 12–15. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Powerlessness Corrupts." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2010). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Block-by-Blockbuster Innovation." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 5 (May 2010): 38. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Think Outside the Building." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 3 (March 2010). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What Would Peter Say?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Mergers That Stick." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Transforming Giants." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 43–52. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Innovation: The Classic Traps." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Matter with the Mainstream." U.S. News & World Report (October 30, 2006), pp. 93–94. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "From White Collar to White Coat." CommonWealth 11, no. 3 (spring 2006): 52–57. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "What Theories Do Audiences Want? Exploring the Demand Side." Academy of Management Learning & Education 4, no. 1 (March 2005): 93–95. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "How Leaders Gain (and Lose) Confidence: An Interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter." Leader to Leader, no. 35 (Winter 2005): 21–27. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. Retrospective: Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Men and Women of the Corporation and The Change Masters," and "Changing Organizational Structures: An Interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Academy of Management Executive 18, no. 2 (May 2004): 92–111. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Exploring the Innovation Pyramid." European Business Forum 16 (winter 2003/2004). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Leadership and the Psychology of Turnarounds." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 6 (June 2003). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Strategy As Improvisational Theater." MIT Sloan Management Review 43, no. 2 (winter 2002). View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Rising to Rising Expectations." World Link 15, no. 1 (January–February 2002): 70–74. View Details
- Gandossy, Bob, and Rosabeth M. Kanter. See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" - Leaders Must Respond to Employee Concerns About Wrongdoing." Business and Society Review 107, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 415–422. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 1 (January 2001): 91–100. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Webbed Wheels of Commerce." World Link 14, no. 1 (January–February 2001). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "How E-Smart Are You?" World Link 13, no. 1 (January–February 2000). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Change is Everyone's Job: Managing the Extended Enterprise in a Globally-Connected World." Organizational Dynamics 28, no. 1 (Summer 1999). (Reprintings include The Organizational Behavior Reader, edited by Osland, Kolb, and Rubin. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2000; Annual Editions: Entrepreneurship, Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000; Harvard-Deusto Business Review, spring 2000. (Spanish translation)) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders." Leader to Leader 13 (summer 1999). (Reprinted in Ivey Business Journal, May-June 2000, pp. 1-6.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Social Sector as Beta Site for Business Innovation." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 3 (May–June 1999). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as Beta Site for Business Innovation." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 3 (May–June 1999). (Reprinted in Harvard Business Review on Innovation, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Global Competitiveness Revisited." Washington Quarterly 22, no. 1 (winter 1999): 39–58. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Thomas D. Dretler. "Global Strategy and Its Impact on Local Operations: Lessons from Gillette Singapore." Academy of Management Executive 12, no. 4 (November 1998): 60–68. (Reprinted in Cross-Cultural Management, edited by R. Redding and B. Stening. Celtenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Six Strategic Challenges." World Link 11, no. 1 (January–February 1998): 28–34. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Using Networking for Competitive Advantage: The Lippo Group of Indonesia and Hong Kong." Strategy & Business, no. 4 (Third Quarter 1996): 51–65. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Good Corporation and How to Get It." Business and Society Review, no. 96 (1996): 7–9. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "How Locals Can Win Global Contests." Leader to Leader 1, no. 1 (1996): 25–29. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Nice Work if You Can Get It: The Software Industry as a Model for Tomorrow's Jobs." American Prospect, no. 23 (Fall 1995): 52–58. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The New Business Cosmopolitans." Strategy & Business, no. 1 (Fall 1995). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Thriving Locally in the Global Economy." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 5 (September–October 1995): 151–160. (Reprinted in World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy, edited by J. Garten. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, pp. 227-243.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "When Local Goes Global." World Link (September–October 1995). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Put People First." World Link (September–October 1995). View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and T. Pittinsky. "Globalization: A New World for Social Inquiry." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 40 (1995–1996): 1–20. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 4 (July–August 1994): 96–108. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and P. A. Yatsko. "Ice Dancing: The Perils of Alliances." Global Competitor 1 (May 1994). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Change in the Global Economy." European Management Journal 12 (March 1994): 1–9. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and R. I. Corn. "Do Cultural Differences Make a Business Difference? Contextual Factors Affecting Cross-cultural Relationship Success." Journal of Management Development 13, no. 2 (1994): 5–23. (Reprintings include: Organizational Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business, edited by J.B. Keys and R.M. Fulmer. Binghamton, N.Y.: International Business Press, 1998; Executive Development and Organizational Learning for the Global Economy, edited by J.B. Keys and R.M. Fulmer. Haworth Press, 1995; Managerial Insights from Literature, edited by S. Puffer. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Employability Security." Business and Society Review, no. 87 (Fall 1993): 11–14. (Reprintings include: Ethical Issues in Business, edited by T. Donaldson and P.H. Werthane. Prentice-Hall, 1995; Ethics in the Workplace, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.) View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M., and B. Stein. "Why Good People Do Bad Things: A Retrospective on the Hubble Fiasco." Academy of Management Executive 7, no. 4 (November 1993): 58–62. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and B. A. Stein. "Leadership for Change: The Rest of the Story." Frontiers of Health Services Management 10 (winter 1993): 28–32. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., G. Quinn, and J. North. "Engines of Progress V: New England Electric Systems NEES Energy." Journal of Business Venturing 7 (January 1992): 73–89. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and L. Richardson. "Engines of Progress: Designing and Running Entrepreneurial Vehicles in Established Companies: The Enter-Prize Program at Ohio Bell, 1985-90." Journal of Business Venturing 6 (May 1991): 209–229. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Transcending Business Boundaries: Twelve Thousand World Managers View Change." Harvard Business Review 69, no. 3 (May–June 1991): 151–164. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., J. North, L. Richardson, C. Ingols, and J. Zolner. "Engines of Progress: Designing and Running Entrepreneurial Vehicles in Established Companies: Raytheon's New Product Center, 1969-89." Journal of Business Venturing 6 (March 1991): 145–163. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Championing Change: An Interview with Bell Atlantic's CEO Raymond Smith." Harvard Business Review 69, no. 1 (January–February 1991): 118–130. (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., L. Richardson, J. North, and E. Morgan. "Engines of Progress: Designing and Running Entrepreneurial Vehicles in Established Companies: The New Venture Process at Eastman Kodak, 1983-89." Journal of Business Venturing 6 (January 1991): 63–82. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., J. North, A. P. Bernstein, and A. Williamson. "Engines of Progress: Designing and Running Entrepreneurial Vehicles in Established Companies: Analog Devices Enterprises." Journal of Business Venturing 5 (November 1990): 415–427. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Foreword." Special Issue on Women and Economic Empowerment. New England Journal of Public Policy 6 (spring/summer 1990). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Navigating the '90s." Best of Business Quarterly 11 (January 1990): 80–85. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The New Managerial Work." Harvard Business Review 67, no. 6 (November–December 1989). (Reprintings include: Ultimate Rewards: What Really Motivates People to Achieve, edited by S. Kerr. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997; Managing People and Organizations, edited by J.J. Gabarro. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Swimming in Newstreams: Mastering Innovation Dilemmas." California Management Review 31, no. 4 (summer 1989): 45–69. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Three Tiers for Innovation Research." Journal of Communications Research 15 (October 1988): 509–23. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Attack on Pay." Harvard Business Review 65, no. 2 (March–April 1987). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Quality Leadership and Change." Quality Progress 20, no. 2 (February 1987). (Reprintings include: Goodmeasure, Solving Quality and Productivity Problems. Milwaukee: ASQC Quality Press, 1988; Foundations of Total Quality Management, edited by J.G. Van Matre. Fort Worth, Tex.: Dryden Press, 1995.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "From Status to Contribution: Organizational Implications of the Changing Basis for Pay." Personnel (January 1987). (Reprinted as "How the New Pay Plans Stack Up." Best of Business Quarterly (fall 1987). Reprintings inlcude: Selected Readings in Strategic Human Resources Management, edited by F.K. Foulkes Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989; Current Approaches to Pay and Benefits, edited by J.N. Matzer Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association, 1988.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Supporting Innovation and Venture Development in Established Companies." Journal of Business Venturing 1 (fall 1985). View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Managing the Human Side of Change." Management Review (April 1985): 52–56. (Reprinted in Readings in Management, edited by P. DuBose. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989. Other reprintings on request.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and J. Buck. "Reorganizing Part of Honeywell: From Strategy to Structure." Organizational Dynamics 13, no. 3 (Winter 1985): 4–25. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Innovation: Our Only Hope for Times Ahead?" MIT Sloan Management Review 25, no. 4 (summer 1984): 51–55. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Middle Manager as Innovator." Harvard Business Review 60, no. 4 (July–August 1982): 95–105. (Reprintings include: Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization, edited by J. Kao. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989; Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, edited by R. Burgelman and M. Maidique. Homewood, Ill.: Irwin, 1988; The Entrepreneur in Local Government, edited by B.H. Moore. Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association, 1983; Trials and Rewards of the Entrepreneur. Boston: Harvard Business Review Reprint Series, 1983; Strategic Management, edited by Richard G. Hamermesh. N.Y.: Wiley, 1983.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Dilemmas of Managing Participation." Organizational Dynamics 11, no. 1 (Summer 1982): 3–21. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Power, Leadership, and Participatory Management." Theory into Practice 21 (autumn 1981): 219–28. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and D. Brinkerhoff. "Organizational Performance: Recent Developments in Measurement." Annual Review of Sociology 7 (1981): 321–49. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and D. Brinkerhoff. "Appraising the Performance of Performance Appraisal." MIT Sloan Management Review 21, no. 3 (spring 1980): 3–16. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Politicization of Organizational Life." OD Practitioner (1980). (Reprinted in Organization Development Classics, edited by D. Van Eynde, J. Hoy, et al. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Power Failure in Management Circuits." Harvard Business Review 57, no. 4 (July–August 1979): 65–75. (Reprintings include Organization Theory: Selected Readings, edited by D.S. Pugh. London: Penguin, 1989; Classics of Organization Theory, edited by J.M. Shafritz. Chicago, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1986; Harvard Business Review, The Executive Dilemma. N.Y.: Wiley, 1985; The Dynamics of Organization, edited by J.N. Yanouzas 1984; Readings in Organizational Behavior and Performance. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1983. Organizational Influence Processes, edited by Porter and Allen. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1983; Coping with Difficult Employees. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Review Reprint Series, 1983; Perspectives on Public Bureaucracy, edited by F.A. Kramer (Third edition). Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop, 1981; Executive Success, edited by E.G. Collins N.Y.: Wiley, 1983. McKinsey Award Winners, 1970-1980. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1982.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "A Good Job is Hard to Find." Working Papers for a New Society 7 (May–June 1979): 44–50. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Reflections on Women and the Legal Profession: A Sociological Perspective." Harvard Womens Law Journal 1 (spring 1978): 1–18. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Work in a New America." Daedalus 107 (winter 1978): 47–78. (Also in A New American?, edited by S. Graubard. N.Y.: Norton, 1980. Reprintings include: Essential Sociology, edited by R.L. Ellis and M.J. Lipetz. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1979; (Italian) Quaderni di Rassegna Syndicale, Journal of the Italian Confederation of Workers (CGIL), (excerpts); Sourcebook on Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by A. Westin N.Y.: Educational Foundation on Individual Rights, 1979; Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by A. Westin. N.Y.: Pantheon, 1980.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Families, Family Processes, and Economic Life." Supplementary Issue. American Journal of Sociology 82 (January 1978). (Also in Turning Points: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Family, edited by S. Boocock and J. Demos. University of Chicago Press, 1978.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Climbing the Pyramid Alone." Wharton Magazine 2 (fall 1977): 38–44. (Reprinted in Managing Organizational Careers, edited by M.A. Morgan. N.Y.: Van Nostrand, 1980.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Some Effects on Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women." American Journal of Sociology 82 (March 1977): 965–90. (Reprintings include: Representative Bureaucracy, edited by J. Dolan and D. Rosenbloom. M.E. Sharpe, 2002; Readings in Sociology, edited by R. Curtis. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 1988; Women and Symbolic Interaction, edited by M.J. Deegan and M. Hill. N.Y.: Allen Unwin, 1986; The Gender Gap and Psychotherapy, edited by E. Carmen and P. Ricker. N.Y.: Plenum, 1984; The Substance of Social Deviance, edited by R.A. Farrell and V.L. Swigert. Alfred Publishing, 1978; Sociological Inventory, Vol. 1, 1979; Reader in Complex Organizations, edited by A. Etzioni and E.W. Lehman. N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980; Sociology: Contemporary Introductory Readings, edited by J. And A. Stimson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Peacock, 1983.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and B. Zablocki. "The Differentiation of Life Styles." Annual Review of Sociology 2 (1976): 269–98. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and D. Jaffe. "Couple Strain in Communal Households: A Four Factor Model of the Separation Process." Journal of Social Issues 32 (July 1976): 169–91. (Reprinted in Divorce and Separation, edited by G. Levinger and O.C. Moles. N.Y.: Basic, 1979.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The Job Makes the Person." Psychology Today (May 1976). (Reprintings include: Breaking Through, edited by B.D. Smith. Addison Wesley Longman, 2001; Organizational Behavior, edited by. D. Kolb. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989; Management Pragmatics, edited by R.A. Webber. Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, 1979.) View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Comment VI: Research Styles and Intervention Strategies--An Argument for a Social Structural Model." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2 (spring 1976): 282–91. (Also in Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation, edited by M. Blazall and B. Reagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "The New Utopian Vision? Bringing Community to the Family." Journal of Contemporary Social Issues (1976). (Reprintings include: Marriage and Family: Coping with Change, edited by L. Cargan. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1984.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Women and the Structure of Organizations: Explorations in Theory and Behavior." Sociological Inquiry 45, nos. 2-3 (1975). (Also in Another Voice, edited by M. Millman and R.M. Kanter. N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1975; Reprintings include: The Management of Libraries: Basic Readings, edited by B.P. Lynch. Neil Schuman, 1985; The Sociology of Organizations: Basic Studies, edited by O. Grusky and G.A. Miller (Rev. ed.) N.Y.: Free Press, 1980;.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Communes in Cities." Working Papers for a New Society 2 (summer 1974): 36–44. (Reprintings include: Sociology Full Circle, edited by W. Feigelman. Second Edition. N.Y.: Praeger, 1976; Co-ops, Communes, and Collectives, edited by J. Case and R. Taylor. N.Y.: Pantheon, 1979.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Intimate Oppression." Sociological Quarterly 15 (spring 1974): 302–14. View Details
- Kanter, R. M., and L. Zurcher. "Evaluating Alternatives and Alternative Values." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 9 (May 1973): 381–97. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Utopian Communities." Sociological Inquiry 43, nos. 3-4 (1973): 263–90. (Also in The Community: Approaches and Applications, edited by M.P. Effrat N.Y.: Free Press, 1974.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Commitment and the Internal Organization of Millenial Movements." American Behavioral Scientist 16 (November–December 1972): 219–43. View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Symbolic Interactionism and Politics in Systemic Perspective." Sociological Inquiry 42, nos. 3-4 (1972). (Also in Perspectives on Political Sociology, edited by A. Effrat. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Communes." Psychology Today (July 1970). (Reprintings: Psychologie (France); The Nuclear Family in Crisis, by M. Gordon. N.Y.: Harper and Row, 1972; Readings in Society Today, CRM Books; Sociology and Youth, by P.K. Manning and M. Truzzi. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1972; Japanese Psychology Today; SIMSOC: A Manual for Participants, by W.A. Gamson. Second Edition. N.Y.: Free Press.) View Details
- Kanter, R. M. "Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities." American Sociological Review 35 (August 1968): 499–517. (Sociology: Students and Society, by J. Rabow. Los Angeles: Goodyear, 1972; Currents of Unrest: An Introduction to Collective Behavior, by O.E. Klapp. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall (Tables); Social Psychology for Sociologists, by D. Field. London: Nelson, 1974; The Sociology of Religion, by S. Bruce. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1994.) View Details
- Book Chapters
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- 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 M. "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, 84–108. 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
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- 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
- Advanced Leadership Pathways
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- 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
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- 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
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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.
- Awards & Honors
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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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