Primary Job Title Co Founder Primary Organization RedGirraffe
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
Joseph B. Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads The Entrepreneurial Manager course in the MBA program at Harvard Business School. 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 commercial consulting operations from 1994 to 2006 and remained a Senior Advisor to firm until its acquisition by Deloitte in 2012.
He has also served a number of national and regional governments in developing policies for enhancing competitiveness, including China and the Middle East. Mr. Fuller is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund. He is a director of PVH Corporation and a former member of HBS’s Board of Dean’s Advisors and of the boards of Merrimac Industries and SM&A.
Joe was the principal author of Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills, a white paper that investigates the labor market for jobs requiring more than a high school degree and less than a four year college education. He also co-authored Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. His current research focuses on mechanisms employers can use to address the skills gap and the impact of skills shortages on reshoring.
Joe has spoken before 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 International Herald Tribune, China Daily, India’s Business Standard, and Brazil’s EXAME. His white papers, Just Say No To Wall Street and What’s a Director to Do?, written in collaboration with Professor Michael Jensen are used in the curriculums of dozens of MBA programs worldwide.
