Faculty and Research

Robert S. Kaplan is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.  Rob is a Senior Director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Berkshire Partners LLC.

Prior to joining Harvard Business School in September 2005, Rob served as Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. with oversight responsibility for the Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions.  He was also a member of the firm’s Management Committee and served as Co-Chairman of the firm’s Partnership Committee and Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Pine Street Leadership Program.  During his career at the firm, he also served in various other capacities including Global Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division (1999 to 2002), Head of the Corporate Finance Department (1994 to 1999) and Head of Asia-Pacific Investment Banking (1990 to 1994).  Rob became a partner in 1990.

Rob is the founding Co-Chair of the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center Advisory Board.  He is also Co-Chairman of the Board of Project A.L.S., Co-Chairman of the Board of the TEAK Fellowship, and is a member of the Boards of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard Management Company, the Ford Foundation, State Street Corporation and the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Rob has been appointed by the Governor of Kansas as a member of the Kansas Healthcare Policy Authority Board and is a member of the Investors Advisory Committee on Financial Markets of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Rob received an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1983 and a B.S. from the University of Kansas in 1979.

Prior to attending business school, Rob was a certified public accountant at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.