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Rosabeth Moss Kanter

KanterRosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Boston, MA

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She advises major corporations and governments worldwide, and is the author or co-author of 16 books.

Professor Kanter serves as a senior adviser to IBM’s award-winning Reinventing Education Initiative and on the board of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. She joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1986 from Yale University; previously, she was a Fellow in Law and Social Science at Harvard Law School. She co-founded Goodmeasure Inc., a consulting group, and serves as a director or adviser for other companies.

Professor Kanter has received 21 honorary doctoral degrees from distinguished universities nationwide and over a dozen leadership awards, and has been named to lists of the "50 most influential businss thinkers in the world," the "18 business gurus to watch," the "100 most important women in America" and the "50 most powerful women in the world."

 
 
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