Robert S. Kaplan

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Robert S. Kaplan is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and co-creator, together with David Norton, of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a company's current actions to its long-term goals. The 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.

In 2006, Kaplan received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.