Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Management Theorist

Citation Formats

General Reference

Business Atlas. "Rosabeth Moss Kanter." Accessed September 7, 2026. https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/business-figures/rosabeth-moss-kanter.

APA Style

Business Atlas. (n.d.). Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Retrieved September 7, 2026, from https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/business-figures/rosabeth-moss-kanter

BibTeX

@misc{businessatlas-rosabeth-moss-kanter,
  author = {Business Atlas},
  title = {Rosabeth Moss Kanter},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-business.interactiveatlas.org/business-figures/rosabeth-moss-kanter},
  note = {Accessed September 7, 2026}
}

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an American sociologist and Harvard Business School professor, born 15 March 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio. She co-founded Harvard University's Advanced Leadership Initiative, serving as its founding director and chair from 2008 to 2018. She is known for a groundbreaking 1977 study of tokenism and its effects on minority group performance in the workplace, and for books including Men and Women of the Corporation and The Change Masters.

Facts

Birth Date

1943-03-15 1

Birth Year

1943 1

Birthplace

Cleveland, Ohio, United States 1

Nationality

American 1

Defining Contribution

Management theorist and Harvard Business School professor whose 1977 study of corporate structure and gender, Men and Women of the Corporation, became a foundational work in management and organizational studies. 1

Notable Work

Men and Women of the Corporation 1

Sources

1. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Wikipedia)

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