Joseph Fuller is Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School and leads the school’s ongoing project on the future of work. He leads the FIELD Global Capstone course in the first year of the school's MBA program, the largest experiential learning course offered at any business school. Before joining the faculty, he was a founder, first employee and long-time CEO of Monitor Group, the global strategy consulting firm, now Monitor-Deloitte. Joe worked with clients in a wide variety of industries, especially professional services firms and those with a heavy reliance on technology. 

Joe’s research focuses on two major topics—the changing nature of work and the evolution of the C-Suite. He founded and co-leads the Managing the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School that research issues of direct relevance to decision makers in business and government, including the impact of technology and demographic changes on the workforce, the rise of the gig economy, global talent flows, and the emergence of the care economy. The Managing the Future of Work podcast that he co-hosts has been downloaded over 2.5 million times. He also founded and co-leads Harvard’s Project on the Workforce, a collaboration between the Harvard schools of business, government and education. It studies issues related to lower skilled workers, including career pathways and the causes of income polarization and occupational segregation. 

Joe is a widely published author. His work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, CEO and Across the Board, Directors and Boards, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and Newsweek magazines, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek.com, Bloomberg.com, China Daily, the Washington Post and the New York Times International edition, The Hill, Politico and Axios. He has appeared on the CBS Evening News with Nora O’Donnell, the NBC Evening News with Lester Holt, France 24’s Evening Report, and PBS’s Marketplace and CNBC on multiple occasions. His work has been covered extensively in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Economist, and Fox Business. His academic collaborators have included Professors Tom Copeland, David Deming, Amy Edmondson, Michael Jensen, Bill Kerr, Raffaella Sadun, and Michael Porter. 

Joe is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and of Harvard Business School. He is a director of Aera Technology and Helios Consulting and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Western Governors University. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Burning Glass Institute.