Newspaper Article

New Harvard Business Review Chief

Cowan, Alison Leigh

1989

Overview

''I've always kept up all my responsibilities,'' Professor [Rosabeth Moss Kanter] said about her personal choices in an interview Friday, taking a few moments out from a board meeting she was attending for the Nichols Institute, a West Coast operator of clinical laboratories. ''I'll take long weekends after working day and night all week, or some time off in the summer. That's been my pattern. But I've never dropped out.'' ''It's a terrible mistake,'' said David W. Ewing, a former managing editor of The Review. ''Rosabeth will help, but it's going to take a full-time editor for at least several years to get The Review turned around again.'' An Outspoken Professor She curtailed the consulting activities when she accepted the Harvard job, but her presence at conferences still commands fees of up to $25,000 a day, which puts her in the company of experts like Michael E. Porter, Harvard's leading business strategist. ''I can't deny I sometimes get that,'' said Professor Kanter, adding that her fees are in line with those of Thomas J. Peters, the consultant who co-wrote the book ''In Search of Excellence.''

• Publisher: New York Times Company
• Subject: APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES / COWAN, ALISON LEIGH / KANTER, ROSABETH MOSS (PROF) / LEVITT, THEODORE