Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

Act

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

Kanter received her Ph.D. 1967 from the University of Michigan . In the 1970s she examined positions and career paths of women and men in an American industrial company. In Men and Women of the Corporation , she uses the term token to refer to members of minority groups in groups.

In 1979 she received the McKinsey Award for the article Power Failure in Management Circuits . In the mid-1980s, Kanter was the first woman to take an endowed chair at Harvard Business School ("Chair of Organizational Behavior, endowed by the Class of 1960").

Her other academic positions were at Yale University , Brandeis University and Harvard Law School . Since 2001, three US research institutions have jointly awarded the "Kanter award for Excellence in Work / Family research". Kanter writes the bi-weekly "Business of America" ​​column for the Miami Herald newspaper .

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

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Commitment and Community . Communes and Utopias in sociological perspective. Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass. 1972.
  • Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life . New York [u. a.] 1973.
  • Men and Women of the Corporation . Basic books, New York 1977.
  • The Change Masters . Corporate Entrepreneurs at Work. Allen & Unwin, London 1983.
  • When giants learn to dance . Mastering the Challenges of Strategy, Management, and Careers in the 1990s. Simon and Schuster, New York 1989.
  • The Challenge of Organizational Change . How Companies experience it and Leaders guide it. Free Press, New York 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See David Newman, Rebecca Smith: Tokenism in the workplace, 1999, accessed on January 18, 2009.
  2. ↑ McKinsey Award winners 1959-2001, PDF ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 17, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isc.hbs.edu
  3. ↑ Peter B. Vaill: An annotated bibliography of foundational Literature in organizational Behavior and Development , 2001, PDF, accessed on January 18, 2009.
  4. ↑ Kanter Award ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Boston College . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bc.edu

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personal data
SURNAME Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio