Faculty and Research

Julie Wulf is an Associate Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches corporate strategy. Professor Wulf's research interests are in the economics of organizations, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate strategy. She studies how firms create incentives for managers through mechanisms such as financial and non-monetary compensation, capital allocation processes, organizational structure and job design, and corporate governance.  Wulf's work has been published in academic journals in the fields of economics, finance, and strategy such as Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. Select articles have been highlighted in the business press including The Economist, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times and more scholarly publications such as The NBER Digest and Sloan Management Review.

Professor Wulf received a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she held several positions in the private sector including Vice President of Corporate Planning and Development at American Express, Senior Associate at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and was a Principal in a private-equity real estate investment firm in New York.  

Prior to coming to HBS, Wulf was on the faculty at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where she taught the first-year MBA core course in Competitive Strategy to both the full-time and executive MBAs.

Wulf lives in Brookline, MA with her husband, son, and daughter.