Sarah Kaplan

Sarah Kaplan is Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She is a co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction as well as Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business. Her latest book is The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation. She frequently speaks and appears in the media on topics related to achieving a more inclusive economy. In 2021, she received the Peter Dey Governance Achievement Award from Governance Professionals of Canada for her contributions to governance reform through her work on the 360º Governance report.

An innovation scholar by training, her current work focuses on applying an innovation lens to understanding the challenges for achieving gender equality and other social and environmental goods. She recently authored “Why Social Responsibility Leads to More Resilient Organizations,” in the Sloan Management Review, “Gender Equality as an Innovation Challenge” and “Meritocracy: From Myth to Reality” in the Rotman Management Magazine, and “The Rise of Gender Capitalism,” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Formerly a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (where she remains a Senior Fellow), and a consultant and innovation specialist for nearly a decade at McKinsey & Company in New York, she completed her doctoral research at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

She is a frequent public speaker and appears regularly in the media including TVO’s The Agenda, SiriusXM, The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, CBC radio and television, the Financial Times, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, NBC Nightly News, NPR’s Marketplace and many other outlets.

Sub-specialties:
Corporate social responsibility
Inclusive economy