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Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943) [3] is an American sociologist who is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. [4] She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018. [ 5 ]
A Harvard Business School professor, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, asserted back in 1977 [12] that a token employee is usually part of a "socially-skewed group" of employees who belong to a minority group that constitutes less than 15% of the total employee population of the workplace. [13]
The phrase collaborative leadership (specifying a particular type of public sector leadership) first appeared in 1992 with the founding of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership (a USA-based nonprofit serving the public sector) and later in the 1990s in response to the twin trends of growth in strategic alliances between private corporations, and the formation of long-term public private ...
Juanne N. Clarke of Wilfrid Laurier University wrote that the movement used Rosabeth Moss Kanter's model of commitment mechanisms to analyze the techniques used to gain women's allegiance. [7] More recently, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons , by Lynn Peril, cited Fascinating Womanhood as part of a body of literature that ...
Feminist scholars such as Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Heidi Hartmann [17] and others [18] have emphasized the role of male homosociality in perpetuating perceived patterns of male dominance in the workplace.
Wheatley's practice as an organizational consultant and researcher began in 1973, [1] working with Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the firm Goodmeasure, Cambridge, Mass. Kanter mentored her well and is the reason Wheatley moved so quickly into being both a keynote speaker and author.
Michael Stanley Dukakis (/ dʊˈkɑːkɪs / duu-KAH-kiss; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew.
Critical mass (sociodynamics) In social dynamics, critical mass is a sufficient number of adopters of a new idea, technology or innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. The point at which critical mass is achieved is sometimes referred to as a threshold within the threshold ...