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Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15, 1943) is an American economist who is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018. [5]
Collaborative leadership is how we align and integrate across organizations. David Archer and Alex Cameron, in their 2008 book Collaborative Leadership: How to succeed in an interconnected world, identify the basic objective of the collaborative leader as the delivery of results across boundaries between different organisations. They say ...
Harvard Business Review began in 1922 [6] as a magazine for Harvard Business School. Founded under the auspices of Dean Wallace Donham, HBR was meant to be more than just a typical school publication. "The paper [ HBR] is intended to be the highest type of business journal that we can make it, and for use by the student and the business man.
Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or gender equality within a workplace or educational context. [1] [2] [3] The effort of including a token individual in ...
Organizational safety. Organizational safety is a contemporary discipline of study and research developed from the works of James Reason, creator of the Swiss cheese model, and Charles Perrow author of Normal Accidents. These scholars demonstrated the complexity and system coupling inherent in organizations, created by multiple process and ...
He has also received the Work-Life Legacy Award and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for excellence in Work-Family Research. Jacobs’ earliest research focused on the gender segregation of occupations and college majors. Women’s concentration in fields that are occupied principally by other women is a major source of gender inequality.
Wheatley's practice as an organizational consultant and researcher began in 1973, working with Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the firm Goodmeasure, Cambridge MA. Kanter mentored her well and is the reason Wheatley moved so quickly into being both a keynote speaker and author.
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 ...