NBER profile: Steven N. Kaplan.

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Steven N. Kaplan is an NBER Research Associate in the Corporate Finance Program and the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business (GSB). He is also the faculty director of the GSB's Polsky Entrepreneurship Center. Kaplan has been a member of the GSB faculty since 1988.

He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and his A.B. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College. Between college and graduate school, he was an investment banker at Kidder...