Lisa Kaplowitz

Lisa Kaplowitz is an award-winning finance professor at Rutgers Business School, where she leverages 25+ years of experience as an investment banker and CFO. She teaches students the fundamentals of corporate finance, with a focus on applying these concepts to decisions typically encountered in corporations and investment banking. Her courses combine excel modeling, case study analysis and strategic thinking. She challenges her students to move beyond the calculations and ask, “what does this mean?” and “how are we going to use this information to grow the business?”

Lisa is also co-founder and executive director of the Center for Women in Business (CWIB), whose mission is to remove barriers, build community and empower women. She is a restless champion for gender equality and her advocacy began as a scholar-athlete at Brown University, when she was part of the landmark Title IX case that added more varsity athletic opportunities for women. Her work has been featured on Bloomberg TV and in Harvard Business Review, USA Today, LA times, Forbes, CFO Magazine and Bloomberg.com.

Lisa is obsessed with her Peloton app (@Prof_Kap) and enjoys traveling, skiing and anything active. She continues to champion gender equity at work and in the home, alongside her husband and teenage sons, where you can see them in action in her latest TEDx, Advancing Women in the Workplace, One Son at a Time.