Considered one of the most prominent business thought leaders in the world and a well-known speaker, Rosabeth Moss Kanter has shared the platform at major events with prime ministers and presidents, as well as CEOs, and she appears often on radio and television.

Professor Kanter?s work focuses on leadership of turnarounds, including how winning streaks and losing streaks begin and end. She examines businesses across a variety of industries, major league sports, inner-city schools, and countries whose economic fortunes have changed. She is interested in the development of new leadership for the digital age, how to guide the transformation of corporations, small and mid-sized businesses, health care, government, and education as they incorporate new technology, create new types of alliances and partnerships, work across boundaries, respond to accountability demands, and take on new social responsibilities. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the co-founder of Goodmeasure Inc., a consulting group, and her clients include some of the world?s most prominent companies.

In 1997-1998 Rosabeth Moss Kanter conceived and led the Business Leadership in the Social Sector (BLSS) project, under the auspices of the Harvard Business School?s Initiative on Social Enterprise, which involved more than 100 national leaders, including CEOs, senators, governors, and the First Lady, in dialogue about public-private partnerships for change. It resulted in the launch of a BLSS video series and a national call to action in collaboration with business associations, an activity she continues as a senior adviser to IBM?s Reinventing Education program.

Professor Kanter has received 21 honorary doctoral degrees and over a dozen leadership awards, and has been named to lists of the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world, the 100 most important women in America, and the 50 most powerful women in the world. Her public service activities span local and global interests. She has been a judge for the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership given at the White House, a member of the Board of Overseers for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and served on the U.S. Secretary of Labor?s Committee on Skills Gap of the 21st Century Work Force Council and the Massachusetts Governor?s Economic Council. Rosabeth Moss Kanter has been a corporate and pension fund director and sits on many civic and non-profit boards, including City Year, the national urban youth service corps that was the model for Americorps and is now expanding to South Africa and other countries.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter's current research topics include: leadership for the digital age, including the circumstances that empower leaders to create change; leadership of turnarounds and other significant changes of direction; and the role, legitimacy, and impact of the multinational corporation in the developed and developing world.