Core Field: Management & Leadership

It is widely believed there are few people who have contributed so significantly to leadership and business strategy. His credentials speak for themselves.

The Academic

As an academic Robert Kaplan has focused his research primarily on two core areas. ABC (Activity Based Costing) and the Balanced Scorecard. For over the last 20 years he has served as the as a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School which is complimented by successful results at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) and Carnegie-Mellon University.

Earning himself a B.S and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and MIT, and a Ph.D in operations research from Cornell and awarded an Honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart. Kaplan is truly the authority on business strategy.

The Author

Robert Kaplan has published over 10 books and well over 100 papers, including many articles in the Harvard Business Review who distinguish Kaplan as ‘the most influential management idea in the past 75+ years’. Some of the his well known and widely read titles throughout the globe include such titles as;

• Organisational Alignment: The further book in the Balanced Scorecard Series (due for publication early 2006)
• The Balanced Scorecard
• The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment (David P. Norton, co-author)
• Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance (Robin Cooper, co-author)
• Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
  

The Speaker

Kaplan is a celebrated speaker who has been sharing his groundbreaking solutions in over 50 countries to well over 20,000 executives and is now recognised as one of the most outstanding speakers in the field of leadership and business strategy.

Global Leaders are pleased to be providing the Asia Pacific region an opportunity to hear from Robert Kaplan, with events in Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in March 2006.

The Award Winner

• Robert Kaplan has been rewarded for his contribution to today business world by receiving a number of accolades, including:
• A Financial Times survey of 1000 executives rated Robert Kaplan as the 15th Most Influential Business Writers/Management Gurus.
• Strategy Maps, his latest book with David Norton was named “one of the top business books of 2004” by amazon.com and Strategy & Business.
• Awarded the Prize for “Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking” at the Telecom Italia Colloquia in December 2004.
• The Accenture Institute for Strategic Change named him among the “Top 50 Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics” for 2002 and 2003.
• His book, The Balanced Scorecard won the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association for “impact on practice”.
• Featured in the Financial Times Top 25 Business Thinkers.
• The Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1988 from the American Accounting Association (AAA).
• 1994 CIMA Award from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) for “Outstanding Contributions to the Accountancy Profession”
• 2001 Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) for contributions to the IMA and the academic.