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SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good By Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Crown Business; 322 pages...
...good as you kick butt is the essence of Harvard Business School scholar Rosabeth Moss Kanter's prescription for corporations. After a three-year study that included 350 interviews and observations in 20 countries, Kanter applauds a socially conscious way of doing business that combines pragmatism and idealism with the bottom line. These firms are not pushovers: "The companies mount and defend lawsuits, push the limits of their market dominance and pricing power, compete aggressively, and lobby governments for favorable treatment." In other words, there are no good losers...
...care costs that disadvantage American companies abroad, the difficulty young people—the lifeblood of any economy—have affording higher education, and, most drastically, the threat that a failure to meaningfully combat global warming will pose to both the planet and human lives. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor, wrote for Politico in response to Krauthammer’s piece, Obama is “not only a brilliant strategist, he is a brilliant analyst of America, understanding all the factors that contribute to economic decline and recovery...
Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth M. Kanter told an audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) last night that successful presidential campaigns must be based on optimism, not fear-mongering. Kanter was the guest of honor at a panel discussion entitled “American Principles and 2008 Presidential Politics.” Kanter, whose book “America the Principled: Six Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again” was published in October, said the country is in “a time of gloom.” Kanter faulted many of the current presidential...
...failure, to be sure, is an essential part of capitalism. There is still the inevitable weeding out of underachievers that economist Joseph Schumpeter termed "creative destruction." And no doubt many companies respond to missteps by becoming stronger. "Every company will have mistakes," says Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. "Some deal with them better than others...