Business Prophet

Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.  She joined the HBS faculty in 1981, and in 1990 became one of its first tenured women. Her revolutionary new book The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism (Viking Penguin, 2004) was featured as idea number one in Business Week's recent special issue “25 Ideas For A Changing World”. She is also the author of the acclaimed classic In The Age of The Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (Basic Books, 1988), for which she has been called “the true prophet of the information age”. 

Professor Zuboff is the author of dozens of scholarly and popular articles on the history and future of work. She has been the subject of a feature article in The New York Times and Business Week, and is a regular contributor to Fast Company.

Shoshana loves teaching and speaking, and draws heavily on humor and personal experience.  Audiences describe her as “magnificent” and “highly creative and informative.”  Ms. Zuboff has spoken in more than twenty countries and to most of the Fortune 100 on such topics as The Support Economy: A New Era of Wealth Creation, Competing in the Support Economy, How to Succeed in the Next Era of Wealth Creation: A Strategic Conversation, and The Vanguard Role of Women in the Next Era of Wealth Creation.  Her talks on “The Information Society” are featured in the Smithsonian's permanent exhibition on “The Information Age”.