Robert Kaplan
Robert S. Kaplan (1940--) is Baker
Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and co-creator, together
with David P. Norton,
of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a company's current
actions to its long-term goals. Kaplan and
Norton introduced
the balanced scorecard method in their 1992 Harvard Business Review
article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance. This
method has been endorsed by corporate heavyweights such as Mobil and
Sears.
The balanced scorecard envisages executives as pilots with a range
of controls and indicators in front of them, based upon which they make
decisions and develop strategies. He has also published extensively in
the fields of strategy, cost accounting and management accounting. Prior
to Harvard, Kaplan was on the faculty and was Dean of the Tepper School
of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2006, Kaplan received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the
Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.
Also in 2006, Kaplan was named to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
Biography of Robert Kaplan
Robert S. Kaplan is Baker Foundation
Professor at the Harvard Business School. Kaplan 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 University of Stuttgart and
University of Lodz.
Kaplan’s research, Executive Education
teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance
management systems to strategy implementation and operational
excellence. He has been a co-developer of both activity-based costing
and the Balanced Scorecard. He has authored or co-authored 14 books, 17
Harvard Business Review articles, and more than 120 other papers. Recent
books include The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for
Competitive Advantage, his fifth Balanced Scorecard book co-authored
with David P. Norton,
and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing with Steve Anderson. His previous
books with Norton
include Alignment, Strategy Maps, named as one of the top ten business
books of 2004 by Strategy & Business and amazon.com, The
Strategy-Focused Organization, named by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as the
best international business book for year 2000, and The Balanced
Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, which has been translated
into 22 languages and won the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American
Accounting Association for its impact on practice. He also co-authored
Cost and Effect, Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management, and
Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, which
received the American Accounting Association Seminal Contributions to
Literature Award in 2007.
In 2006, Kaplan was elected to the
Accounting Hall of Fame, and received the Lifetime Contribution Award
from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting
Association (AAA). In December 2004, he received the Telecom Italia
"Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking." The Financial
Times included him in its 2005 list of Top 25 Business Thinkers. The
Accenture Institute for Strategic Change named him, in 2002 and 2003,
among the Top 50 Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics. Kaplan
received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1988 from the AAA,
the 1994 CIMA Award from the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants (UK) for "Outstanding Contributions to the Accountancy
Profession," and the 2001 Distinguished Service Award from the Institute
of Management Accountants (IMA) for contributions to the practice and
academic community.
Kaplan speaks on performance and cost
management systems in North and South America, Europe, Middle East,
South Africa, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. He is chairman of the
Practice Leadership Committee of The Palladium Group and currently
serves on the boards of Evergreen Energy, Acorn Systems, and the
Technion Institute of Management.
References
http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=rkaplan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Kaplan
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