Hubert Joly

Hubert Joly is Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy Co., Inc., and the author of The Heart of Business – Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism, a Wall Street Journal Bestseller published by Harvard Business Review Press.

Hubert is also a member of the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, an Executive Advisor at World50, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Through his foundation, he has endowed the Joly Family chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris where he actively collaborates with the faculty.

Prior to Best Buy, he was the CEO of Carlson Companies, a global leader in the hospitality and travel industry, the CEO of Carlson Wagonlit Travel, a Senior Executive at Vivendi S.A., the President of EDS France and a partner at McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of HEC Paris and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Hubert has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor. He is a knight in the French Legion of Honor and the French National Order of Merit.

He teaches in the MBA program, is a co-chair of the Leading Global Business executive education program, is a member of the faculty in the New CEO program, and is currently piloting action-oriented programs focused on helping companies “Put their purpose to work and unleash human magic”.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming.
  

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Joly, Hubert. "Sens, raison d'être et leadership." In Dictionnaire amoureux de l'entreprise et des entrepreneurs, edited by Denis Zervudacki, 650–656. Paris: Plon, 2021, French ed.

• Joly, Hubert. "The Power of Accepting Feedback." Chap. 15 in Work Is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose From the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders, edited by Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, and Sarah McArthur, 109–114. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Joly, Hubert. "Creating a Meaningful Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 13, 2021).
  
• Joly, Hubert. "How to Reframe What Work Means to You." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 13, 2021).
  
• Joly, Hubert. "Purpose Before Profit: Unleashing Individual and Collective 'Human Magic'." Strategy & Leadership 49, no. 4 (2021): 3–8.
  
• Joly, Hubert. "How to Lead in the Stakeholder Era." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2021).
  
• Joly, Hubert. "How to 'Re-engineer' Your Business for Safety." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 2, 2020). View Details
• Joly, Hubert. "Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 8, 2020). View Details
• Joly, Hubert. "A Time to Lead with Purpose and Humanity." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 24, 2020).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND MATERIALS

• Cash, James I., Linda A. Hill, Hubert Joly, Lynn S. Paine, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Report on Racial Inclusion in the Boardroom: A Workshop Convened by Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative and Board Leadership Project." (pdf) White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, June 2021.
  

AWARDS & HONORS

• Named HEC Paris Person of the Year in 2020.
• Awarded the Deming Cup for Operational Excellence in 2019.
• Named one of the Top 10 CEOs in the United States by Glassdoor in 2019.
• Named one of the Top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review in 2018.
• Named one of the Top 30 CEOs in the World by Barron’s in 2018.
• Inducted into the Junior Achievement of the Upper-Midwest Business Hall of Fame in 2018.
• Named Person of the Year by Twin Cities Business Magazine in 2018.
• Appointed a Knight in the French Legion of Honor in 2016.
• Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in 2016.
• Recipient of the 2015 US Sciences Po American Foundation Alumni Award.
• Awarded the French National Order of Merit in 2009.
• Selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, 1997–1999.