Biography

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a renowned Harvard Business School professor (holding the Ernest L. Arbuckle Chair) and best-selling author whose strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations for over 25 years.

The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989 - 1992) and a consultant to major corporations and governments worldwide on issues of strategy, innovation and leadership for change, she has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), placed in the top 10 on the annual list of the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50), and called one of the 9 "rock stars of business" (American Way).

She is the author or co-author of 17 books, with translations into 17 languages. Her classic prizewinning book, Men & Women of the Corporation, was a source of insight to countless individuals and organizations about corporate careers and the individual and organizational factors that can load the situation for success; a spin-off cartoon video, A Tale of 'O': On Being Different, is among the world's most widely-used diversity tools; and a related book, Work & Family in the United States, set a policy agenda (in 2001, a coalition of centers created the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for the best research on that issue).

Her award-winning book, When Giants Learn to Dance, showed many companies worldwide the way to master the new terms of competition at the dawn of the global information age.

Her latest book is America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again.