Hubert Joly

Hubert Joly is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Best Buy Co., Inc., where he led the company's turnaround and transformed it into an industry leader, consistently rated one of the best places to work for. He is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, and a vice chairman of the Business Council. He has endowed the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris,...See more

Hubert Joly is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Best Buy Co., Inc., where he led the company's turnaround and transformed it into an industry leader, consistently rated one of the best places to work for. He is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, and a vice chairman of the Business Council. 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, 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 Harvard Business Review, one of the top thirty CEOs in the world by Barron's, and one of the top ten CEOs in the US by Glassdoor. He is a knight in the French Legion of Honor and the French National Order of Merit. See less