Robert Kaplan has achieved outstanding results as a lecturer of University of Carnegie-Mellon and Harvard Business School. He is one of the most known and asked-for lecturers speaking at forums devoted to business strategy and leadership.

 

His balanced scorecard (BSC) is a most often used tool enabling to link the tactics of a company to its strategic purposes. The magazine “Harvard Business Review” declared BSC “one of the most important ideas in management for past 75 years”. BSC has created a new approach to company management.

 

In his revolutionary books (the first book “Balanced Scorecard”, in 2001, won a Wildman medal from the American Association of Accountants “For Contribution to Practice”). R. Kaplan developed techniques which now are widely used in the world of business: the matching of the product cost calculation systems and systems of company performance indicators management with processes of strategy introduction and achievement of the highest operational indicators. Owing to R. Kaplan's revolutionary approach this his book and the books following it (“The Strategy Focused Organization: How Companies Using BSC Prosper in the New Conditions for Business”, co-author David P. Norton, “Expenses and Consequences – the use of a uniform expenses account system to increase in profitability and performance indicators, co-author Robin Cooper, “Strategic Maps: transforming non-material assets of a company in a tangible result of activity”) have changed all process of company management. Kaplan has received numerous awards and honorary titles for his works. In December, 2004, he received the prize “For Leadership in Business and Economic Thinking” at the colloquium held by Telecom Italia. The Institute of Research of Strategic Changes sponsored by the company “Accenture” included R. Kaplan in its annual list “50 leading researchers and authors who write about management” in 2002 and 2003, and the newspaper “Financial Times” has included him in its list of 25 leading theorists of business. R. Kaplan is also a holder of the awards: “For outstanding achievements in teaching accounting” in 1977 from the American Association of Bookkeepers”, “For Outstanding Contribution to Accounting” from Chartered Institute of the Management Accountants (CIMA, the Great Britain) in 1994 and also “For Outstanding Merits” from Institute of Management Accountants (IMA, the USA) in 2001. In January, 2006, he was awarded from the American Association of Accountants “For Outstanding Contribution to Financial Management”.