Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Professor

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. 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 an international model for a new stage of higher education preparing 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. 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 received the Thinkers 50 Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. She has received 24 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards, and prizes.