Professor Robert Kaplan is the number one expert on aligning measurement and management systems to strategy execution. Kaplan, along with David Norton, created “The Balanced Scorecard” more than 20 years ago and it has now become the premier management tool for strategy execution as described in his most recent book, “The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage.” Since publication of this book, he has extended its reach further into an integrated risk management approach and a framework for co-creating and delivering a shared value strategy that simultaneously delivers economic, environmental and community performance. He has also introduced “Activity Based Costing” to correct the deficiencies of traditional standard costing systems.

Kaplan is also currently collaborating with his Harvard Business School colleague, Professor Michael Porter, the world’s most influential authority on strategy and competitiveness, to transform the health care industry by introducing accurate measurements of outcomes and costs. Their work was featured as the lead article in September 2011 Harvard Business Review, “How to solve the cost crisis in health care.” They are currently helping organizations around the world to implement their innovative approach.

Professor Robert Kaplan | BIOGRAPHY
Harvard Business School Professor, Board Executive, Bestselling Author, Speaker & Executive Advisor.
Ranked in the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame for his Lifetime Contribution to the Management & Accounting Profession

Prof. Robert Kaplan is the Baker Foundation Professor at 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 – 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, Lodz and Waterloo.

Ranked by Thinkers 50 as one of the World’s Most Influential Business Thinkers
Professor Kaplan together with Dave Norton has been honoured by Thinkers 50 along with Harvard Business Professor Chris Argyris, Kenichi Ohmae, Tom Peters, Henry Mintzberg, Philip Kotler, Howard Gardner, Charles Handy, Ikujiro Nonaka and Warren Bennis. He is currently collaborating with his Harvard colleague, Professor Michael Porter on measuring the cost of delivering healthcare and linking patient costs to outcomes.

Prolific Best Selling Author, International Speaker & Executive Educator
Kaplan was co-creator of both Activity Based Costing and the Balanced Scorecard. He has authored and co-authored 14 books and more than 150 papers, including 23 in Harvard Business Review. His 5th book co-authored with Dave Norton, STRATEGY MAPS, was named as one of the top 10 business books by Strategy & Business and amazon.com. THE STRATEGY-FOCUSED ORGANISATION was named by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as the best international business book of 2000. THE BALANCED SCORECARD has been translated into 24 languages and won the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association for Management and RELEVANCE LOST: THE RISE AND FALL OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING received the American Accounting Association Seminal Contributions to Literature Award in 2007.

Widely Evidenced Success for Strategy Execution by both the Private & Public Sectors
The success of Professor Kaplan’s Strategy Execution Model is evidenced with case studies that have used strategy maps and scorecards to achieve breakthrough results for shareholders, citizens and constituents. These are just a few of the companies who acknowledge the Balanced Scorecard as a key success factor and feature in the Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy. Cisco | Ricoh | Siemens | HSBC | Volkswagen | Hilton Hotels | Merck | HSBC | Infosys | Canon | Mobil | Best Buy | Motorola | Boehringer Ingelheim | Dupont | LG Phillips | Volvo | Wendy’s | Saatchi & Saatchi | Tata Motors | Datacraft | University of Leeds | UPS

Lifetime Contributor to the Management Accounting Profession and to Education in Accounting

• Regularly ranked among the Top 20 Business Thinkers in the world.
• Ranked in the top 20 business writers and speakers including: The Most Influential Thinkers | HR Magazine November 2011.
• 1988 – Prof Robert Kaplan received the outstanding educator award from the American Accounting Association.
• 2006 – Elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
• 2006 – The American Accounting Association awarded Prof Robert Kaplan with the Lifetime
• Contribution Award for distinguished contributions to advancing the Management Accounting Profession.
• 2008 – The Institute of Management Accountants awarded him for distinguished contributions to advancing the management accounting profession.