About

Lisa Kaplowitz has been an investment banker, a CFO, a stay-at-home mom and is (currently) a finance professor at Rutgers Business School and the executive director of the Rutgers Center for Women in Business (CWIB).
 

Educator : Lisa is an award-winning finance professor at Rutgers Business School, where she leverages her 20+ years of experience as an investment banker and CFO.  She teaches undergraduates, MBAs and Executive MBAs 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?” She earned the Dean’s Meritorious Teaching Award (2018), the Dean’s Meritorious Service Award (2021), Dean's Meritorious Teaching Innovations Award (2022) and NTT Excellence in Scholarly Contributions Award (2024).

Speaker :  Lisa serves as keynote speaker, moderator, panelist and workshop facilitator at companies, organizations and conferences on topics ranging from financial accumen to inclusive workplaces to lessons learned as an elite athlete to building workplaces where everyone can thrive.  Her style is warm and welcoming, while simulataneously inspiring and action-oriented.
 
Advocate : Lisa is the co-founder and executive director of the Rutgers Center for Women in Business (CWIB), where she works with individuals and organizations to keep talented and qualified women in the workplace longer and on track for senior leadership by building workplaces where everyone can thrive.  In 2020, she was honored as a “Woman on the Rise” by Paradigm for Parity. Lisa 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, ESPN, and ABC News, and in USA Today, Harvard Business Review, LA Times, Forbes, Fast Company, The CFO Magazine, Bloomberg.com and The Conversation. She continues to champion gender equity at work and in the home, alongside her husband and teenage sons.
 
Other : Lisa earned a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Brown and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.  While at Brown, she was captain of the Women’s Gymnastics team, 4-year MVP, 4-year All-Ivy, 3-year Academic All-Ivy, 2-year all-ECAC and was inducted in the Brown Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. She also founded Brown Athletics W.O.M.E.N. (Women’s Opportunity, Mentorship & Empowerment Network) to connect student athletes and alumni for professional development and currently serves on the Brown University Sports Foundation Board of Directors.
 
Lisa resides in New Jersey with her husband and 2 sons, and enjoys traveling, skiing and anything active. When she is not working or traveling, you will likely find her @Prof_Kap in a Peloton class.