Robert S. Kaplan Harvard University

Robert Kaplan co-authored Management Accounting 2/e with Anthony Atkinson, Rajiv Banker, and S. Mark Young,

Robert S. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. Kaplan joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA), Carnegie-Mellon University. He served as Dean of GSIA 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. In 1994, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart.

Kaplan's research, teaching, and consulting focus on new cost and performance measurement systems, primarily activity-based costing and the Balanced Scorecard. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers and nine books. Kaplan received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1988 from the American Accounting Association (AAA), and the 1994 CIMA Award from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) for "Outstanding Contributions to the Accountancy Profession."

Recent publications include, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (Harvard Business School Press, 1996), and "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," in the January-February 1996 Harvard Business Review, both co-authored with David P. Norton. Forthcoming, in 1997, will be Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance (HBS Press), with Robin Cooper. In 1994, HBS Management Productions produced his four-part video-tape series, Measuring Corporate Performance, which presents concepts and companies' experiences with activity-based cost management and the Balanced Scorecard.

Kaplan's other co-authored books include Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management: Moving from Analysis to Action; Measures for Manufacturing Excellence; Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, plus three management accounting textbooks.

Kaplan consults on the design of performance and cost management systems with many leading companies in North America and Europe. He regularly offers seminars in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Israel. Currently, Kaplan serves on the Board of Directors of the J.I. Kislak Organization in Miami, and on the Academic Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).

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