Robert S. Kaplan

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later, Kaplan joined the role of Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School in 1984 after serving as a Dean at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1977 to 1983. For PhD in Operations Research, he moved to the Cornell University. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Stuttgart in 1994, the University of Lodz in 2006, and the University of Waterloo in 2008. In 2006, Kaplan's name was added to the Accounting Hall of Fame. In the same year, he received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. In 2021 Kaplan was awarded honorary doctorate by the Prague University of Economics and Business.