Robert Kaplan
Robert S. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he served as Dean from 1977 to 1983. Kaplan received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stuttgart (1994), Lodz (2006), and Waterloo (2008).
Kaplan’s research, Executive Education teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation. His current research focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter, measuring the cost of delivering health care and linking patient costs to outcomes.
Robert Kaplan is best known as the originators of the Balanced Scorecard, a strategic management tool that links a company's current actions with its long-term goals. The Balanced Scorecard is one of the most successful and widely used management tools in the world.
Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School.
His most recent book is Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage (2008). As well as the Balanced Scorecard, Kaplan co-developed the concept of activity based costing, and is currently applying this approach to health care with his Harvard colleague, Michael Porter.
Speaking Topics
Kaplan’s research, Executive Education teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation. His current research focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter, measuring the cost of delivering health care and linking patient costs to outcomes.
Robert Kaplan is best known as the originators of the Balanced Scorecard, a strategic management tool that links a company's current actions with its long-term goals. The Balanced Scorecard is one of the most successful and widely used management tools in the world.
Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School.
His most recent book is Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage (2008). As well as the Balanced Scorecard, Kaplan co-developed the concept of activity based costing, and is currently applying this approach to health care with his Harvard colleague, Michael Porter.
Speaking Topics
- Leadership and the Balanced Scorecard
- Applying Activity-Based Costing & management
- Communicating Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
