Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone course in the first year of the MBA program. FIELD Global Capstone is the school’s premier experiential learning course, in which more than 900 first year MBA students travel to fifteen countries around the world to work directly local companies on a product or service challenge. He formerly developed the Making Difficult Decisions course in the second year of the MBA program and headed required The Entrepreneurial Manager course.

Joe’s research probes the major forces shaping the future of work. He has written extensively on the "skills gap" and investigates the paradox that many employers have chronic difficulty filling jobs while millions of Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce. His research on degree inflation—a phenomenon whereby companies impose a requirement that candidates hold a college degree to apply for positions that have not historically required post-secondary credentials—has been cited as a catalyst for the emergence of the skills-based hiring movement. Joe has written extensively on upward mobility for lower wage workers, including research on the effectiveness of community colleges and the opportunity to expand apprenticeships in the United States. He is a co-creator of the American Opportunity Index that ranks leading companies on the quality of the opportunities for upward mobility they provide workers without college degrees. His research on how employers’ policies shape the prospects of low wage workers achieving upward mobility, served as the basis for his article The High Cost of Neglecting Low Wage Workers that won the 2023 Warren Bennis Prize as the best article on leadership in the Harvard Business Review. He has published pioneering research on the business impact of employees’ caregiving obligations on employers.

In 2021, Joe co-founded the Harvard Project on Workforce with colleagues from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Graduate School of Education. The project focuses on issues related to upward mobility and takes a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding issues ranging from career navigation to skills acquisition. The project also sponsors a study group for students from across Harvard’s graduate schools.

A 1981 graduate of the school, Joe was a founder and first employee of the global consulting firm, Monitor Group, now Monitor-Deloitte. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of its consulting operations until 2006 and remained a Senior Advisor to the firm until its acquisition by Deloitte in 2012. During his three decades in consulting, Fuller worked with senior executives and policymakers on a wide variety of issues related to corporate strategy and national competitiveness.

Joe has spoken at numerous management conferences and has written extensively. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, CEO, and The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance magazines, as well as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Atlantic, The Hill, Axios, The International Herald Tribune, China Daily, India’s Business Standard, and Brazil’s EXAME. His research has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist. He has appeared on CNBC, NPR’s Morning Edition and On Point, PBS’s Marketplace and NBC’s Nightly News with Lester Holt, CBS’s Evening News with Nora O’Donnell and France 24’s Evening Report. His white papers, Just Say No To Wall Street and What’s a Director to Do?, written in collaboration with the late Professor Michael Jensen are used in the curriculums of dozens of MBA programs worldwide.

Mr. Fuller is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund, as well as a former member of Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors, and the boards of directors of PVH Corporation, Merrimac Industries and SM&A. He serves on the boards of Aera Technology and Helios Consulting. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Western Governors University. Joe is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Burning Glass Institute.

About Rachel Doyle, GlamourGals Founder And CEO

Rachel Doyle is the Founder and CEO of GlamourGals Foundation. Combining her compassion
and love of beauty, she created a unique program that fosters intergenerational connections
while developing empathetic leadership skills in teens. Over 25 years, Rachel has deftly steered
the organization through challenges, including financial downturns and global pandemics, all
while ensuring that in some years 95% of funding supports its core mission. She is transforming
the organization into a global movement to end elder isolation and loneliness. With
headquarters in New York City, GlamourGals now mobilizes over 2,000 teen volunteers in 31
states and 150 communities across the continent, having inspired more than 10,000
compassionate leaders throughout North America since 2000.
Rachel founded the GlamourGals Foundation in 2000 as a junior in high school in honor of her
grandmother who had recently passed away. Unable to regularly visit her grandmother who
lived in a senior home across the country, she realized there were women in the senior homes
in her local community who also were not receiving regular visits from their families.
Rachel’s social entrepreneurship was recognized by the Sally Hansen and Glamour Magazine
“Best of You” Award in 2015, the Richard C. Cornuelle Social Entrepreneurship Innovation
Award (now Civil Society Award), Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in 2011, and the
First-ever CosmoGIRL! of the year in 2001.
GlamourGals has been widely covered by top national press outlets. Rachel has appeared on
The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, CBS The Early Show, and The TODAY
Show, and has been featured in Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The Chronicle of
Philanthropy, and SAP’s “Going Good: Learning for Life” podcast series. The GlamourGals
program and Rachel’s leadership style have been included in the following books: “Get It
Together” by Lauren Berger, McGraw Hill 7th Grade Health Textbook, and a Prentice Hall
College Management textbook.
Known as an inspirational speaker, Rachel is regularly invited to share her expertise on the topic
of leadership skills development at conferences, schools, trade organizations, and business
groups, including Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Southern California, Hugh
O’Brian Youth Leadership, HSBC, and OMD Worldwide.
She holds a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University, as well as an
Entrepreneurship Certificate from The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship
at Cornell University.

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