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Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 42, will become the first Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration, a chair endowed with a gift of $1.75 million by alumni last October. Kanter, who with her husband runs Good-measure, Inc., a Cambridge management consulting firm, will join the faculty July...
...Kanter will be the second woman among the school's 86 senior faculty. She is known for her two books, "Men and Women of the Corporation" and "The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation...
While many faculty members at the Business School focus on entrepreneurship in "start-up companies," Kanter is more interested in large companies working to develop new ideas and technologies, said B-School spokesman James E. Aisner...
Stevenson said Kanter has been devoted to studying innovation within well-established organizations and was the top choice for the newly endowed professorship. "She is both a widely reputed scholar and highly respected in the business community," Stevenson said...
Significantly, no one has proved beyond doubt that LEP youngsters learn faster or better through bilingual instruction than by any other methods, including old-fashioned "submersion," i.e., going cold turkey into regular classrooms where only English is spoken. Says Adriana de Kanter, one of the authors of a controversial 1981 study sponsored by the Department of Education: "Basically we found that sometimes (bilingualism) worked, and sometimes it didn't, and that most of the time, it made no difference...