Welcome back to Management Today's Workplace Evolution Podcast sponsored by Michael Page - Part of the Page Group! Our first guest for 2021 is Dr Robert S. Kaplan, a Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, is co-developer of both activity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Kaplan joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he served as Dean from 1977 to 1983. He now also works as an advisor to the Palladium Group.  Dr Kaplan is a man who made strategy a little simpler for all of us alongside his colleague David Norton with the introduction of the Balanced Score Card. A concept every business leader should be aware of and one that we define and explain at the start of our discussion. Robert has now evolved the score card concept to support organisations in contending with what he sees as every increasing “Societal & environmental Obligations” at a time when the the UK still has serious issues with Covid, child poverty, adult learning, unemployment & digital inequalities. We discussed how business have worked in their community to manage these issues but also the societal pressures on pharmaceutical giants rolling out the vaccine right now  - it might be a good idea to look at past lessons learnt from the HIV and AIDs epidemic. We also explored his beliefs on what organisations and governments will really need to discuss at the “COP” conference coming up the UK this year to tackle climate change and meet Bill Gates’ demands of going Carbon Zero by 2050. Our discussion starts with us discussing the changes Robert has seen during his incredible 35 years at Harvard Business School – before we had over please remember one thing – enjoy the podcast!.... Podcast notes: The Palladium Group: https://thepalladiumgroup.com/ Harvard Business School: https://hbr.org/ Harvard Business School (Inclusive Growth: https://hbr.org/2018/01/inclusive-growth-profitable-strategies-for-tackling-poverty-and-inequality) Harvard Business School (Novel Risks: https://hbr.org/2020/11/the-risks-you-cant-foresee) If you enjoyed the podcast please like and share!  If you would like to be on the podcast and have great business insights to share get in touch at admin@workplaceevolution.   Thank-you for listening! You can find out more about us at the following addresses: Twitter: https://twitter.com/workplaceevol Michael Costello's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcostellooccpsych1/ The Workplace Evolution podcast is brought to you by Workplace Evolution Ltd - The Natural Selection For Workplace Solutions!  Michael Costello is the Managing Director of Workplace Evolution based in Lancaster, UK --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jointheevolution/message