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Steve Kaplan conducts research in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance, and corporate finance. His published papers appear in numerous academic business journals. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Finance Association in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the field of finance. Kaplan is a co-creator of the Kaplan-Schoar PME (Public Market Equivalent) private equity benchmarking approach. He has been referred to by Fortune Magazine as 'probably the foremost private equity scholar in the galaxy.' Kaplan teaches advanced MBA and executive courses in entrepreneurial finance, private equity, corporate finance, corporate governance, and wealth management. BusinessWeek has recognized him as one of the top 12 business school teachers in the country. He co-founded the entrepreneurship program at Booth and has helped start Booth’s business plan competition, the New Venture Challenge (NVC), which has included 800 companies, raised $1.5 billion, and created $10 billion in value through companies like GrubHub, Braintree/Venmo, and Tovala Simple Mills. Kaplan has served on the board of Morningstar and other fund companies and has been a faculty member since 1988. He received an AB, summa cum laude, in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College and earned a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.
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