Tate brings management scholar

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, internationally known business leader, educator and author is the next guest in the 2002-2003 Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series at SMU.

Kanter is one of the most prolific management scholars writing today. She is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles and professional published papers, as well as 13 books, including such bestsellers as The Change Masters, Men and Women of the Corporation, When Giants Learn to Dance, The Challenge of Organizational Change, World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy and the co-edited collection Innovation.

Her latest book On the Frontiers of Management consists of the articles she has written over the years for the Harvard Business Review.

The Zale Corporation Lecture of the Lecture Series, titled “Leadership in Turbulent Times, Coping with Change in Business, Technology, Communications and the World,” will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday in McFarlin Auditorium.

The Student Forum will be the usual question and answer session for students from SMU and area high schools. It will be held from 4:30-5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater.

Kanter graduated from Bryn Mawr and received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1967. She currently occupies the Class of 1960 chair as professor of business administration at Harvard. She has attracted considerable attention for her somewhat controversial reign as editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Kanter is an internationally known business leader, award-winning author and expert on strategy, innovation and the management of change. She advises major corporations and governments worldwide.

Considered one of the most prominent business speakers and strategy consultants in the world, she has addressed trade associations, civic groups and national conventions in nearly every U.S. state and in more than 20 countries, sharing the stage with the presidents and prime ministers of the United States, Great Britain, Norway, Malaysia, Peru and Venezuela. She has consulted for many prominent companies, such as General Motors, Bell Atlantic and IBM.

She has advised that cheap labor is not the best way for United States to compete globally. It needs to compete with brainpower. She agrees with Henry Ford’s philosophy that unless workers are paid a decent wage, they’re not going to be able to afford the products the company makes.

Photography and videotaping will be allowed during the forum. For the evening lecture, photography using available light will be permitted only during the first 15 minutes. Videotaping will not be permitted.