The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

She married consultant Berry Stein in 1972. Her dissertation was on 19th-century utopian communes. Kanter's first husband Stuart A.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter (born March 15 1943 in Cleveland Ohio) is a tenured professor in business at Harvard Business School where Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship.