[3][better source needed] Professor Kaplan holds a Master of Public Administration from the École nationale d'administration, an M.Sc.

Kaplan was visiting Ph.D. at INSEAD and participated in the International Teachers Programme at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

[14][15] He is fellow of the St George's House (Windsor Castle),[16] and member of Kozminski University’s Executive Education Advisory Board.

[19] Defining Europe as holding “maximum cultural diversity at minimal geographical distances“, Kaplan is a strong advocate of cross-cultural management education.

With more than 37,000 citations on Google Scholar,[23] Kaplan was counted amongst the Top 50 Business and Management authors in the world according to John Wiley & Sons.

[30] More recent research deals with the influence of the digital sphere on higher education, such as the arrival of MOOCs and SPOCs,[31] as well as in the area of artificial intelligence.