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Robert Steven Kaplan

American business executive

Not to be confused with Robert S. Kaplan.

Robert Steven Kaplan (born 1957) served as the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2015 until 2021 and is a long-time Goldman Sachs executive, where he currently serves as vice chairman.[1]

Prior to joining the Dallas Fed, Kaplan was a faculty member and senior associate dean at the Harvard Business School.

Kaplan is an active venture philanthropist through his work as co-chairman of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.[2] He serves as chairman of Project ALS, and is a board member of Harvard Medical School.[3][4]

He is the author of three books on business leadership: What You Really Need To Lead, What You're Really Meant To Do, and What To Ask The Person In The Mirror.[5][6]

Career

Kaplan was vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He became a partner in 1990. He served as head of the Corporate Finance Department, head of Asia Pacific Investment Banking and head of the hig

Robert S. Kaplan

American accounting academic

Not to be confused with Robert Steven Kaplan.

Robert S. Kaplan

Kaplan speaking at the 2017 Palladium Positive Impact Summit in London.

Born

Robert Samuel Kaplan


(1940-05-02) 2 May 1940 (age 84)
Occupation(s)Accounting academic and professor
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S.)
Cornell University (Ph.D.)
DisciplineLeadership Development
InstitutionsHarvard Business School
Carnegie-Mellon University (1977–1983)
Main interestsActivity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)

Robert Samuel Kaplan (born 1940) is an American accounting academic, and Emeritus Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is known as co-creator of Balanced Scorecard.[1][2] together with David P. Norton.

Biography

Kaplan started his academic career at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1968. Kaplan did Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Electrical Engineering at the M

Robert Kaplan biography and books

Vincent van Vliet

May 16, 2023

Robert Kaplan (1940) is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) and one of the creators of the Balance Scorecard (BSC). With colleague David Norton, Robert S. Kaplan did much research into the area of strategy development, activity-based costing (ABC) and management accounting. This article covers his biography, quotes and publications.

Robert Kaplan biography

Robert Kaplan obtained a BSc. and MSc. Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He carried out research into the area of Operations Research and he obtained his doctorate from the University of Cornell.

Kaplan has also received three honorary doctorates  from the Universities of Stuttgart (1994), Lodz (2006) and Waterloo (2008).

He has done much research from linking costs and performance management to strategy implementation. This research focused on measuring and managing organizational risk. He developed concepts with colleagues David Norton and Michael Porter such as activity-based costing (a cost a

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