Rotman School Professor Honoured with Governance Achievement Award from The Governance Professionals of Canada.

Toronto, November 5, 2021 – Sarah Kaplan, a professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management is this year’s recipient of the Peter Dey Governance Achievement Award. The award, announced yesterday by The Governance Professionals of Canada (GPC), recognizes an individual who has positively impacted governance and contributed to transforming the way that Canadian companies are governed.

Prof. Kaplan is a Distinguished Professor of Gender and the Economy; Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy; and a fellow of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School.

The judges noted in their report for the award that Prof. Kaplan “sends a strong signal to the community that governance can be advanced and improved in many ways and through many perspectives. She continues to transform the way Canadian companies are and will be governed.”

In February 2021, Prof. Kaplan was a co-author of the report, “360º Governance: Where are the Directors in a World in Crisis?,” which highlighted thirteen key recommendations for Canadian corporate governance reform. The judges also noted the work led by Prof. Kaplan with the Institute for Gender and the Economy which aims to promote an understanding of gender inequalities and how they can be remedied in the economy and in the world of business as well as GATE’s work last year on the first national feminist economy recovery plan globally in partnership with YWCA Canada. She further offers her governance insights at governance associations, academic institutions, corporations, and law firms, and has written a series of leading articles and management pieces on thought-provoking matters in governance. She has also been invited as a witness to the Canadian Senate on the diversity provisions in Bill C-25 regarding corporate board diversity.

Prof. Kaplan is a co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction. Her latest book—The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation—is based on her award-winning course at the Rotman School. Her research has covered how organizations participate in and respond to the emergence of new fields and technologies in biotechnology, fiber optics, financial services, nanotechnology and most recently, the field emerging at the nexus of gender and finance. Her current work focuses on applying an innovation lens to understanding the challenges for achieving gender equality. Formerly a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (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).

The Governance Professionals of Canada (GPC) was created in 1994, shortly after the Dey Report was published by the TSX on ‘Where Are the Directors’. As the principal advocate for those who work in corporate governance, GPC aspires to: Influence and promote leading governance practices; Be a catalyst for establishing the highest standards in corporate governance in Canada; and, Promote the recognition and success of Canadian governance professionals.

The Rotman School of Management is part of the University of Toronto, a global centre of research and teaching excellence at the heart of Canada’s commercial capital. Rotman is a catalyst for transformative learning, insights and public engagement, bringing together diverse views and initiatives around a defining purpose: to create value for business and society. For more information,

visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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Ken McGuffin
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