
Fred Foulkes
Professor Emeritus, Management & Organizations
Principal publications include: Creating More Meaningful Work (The American Management Association); Casebook on Church and Society (with Keith Bridston, Ann D. Meyers and Louis Weeks, Abington Press); Personnel Policies in Large Nonunion Companies (Prentice-Hall); Human Resources Management: Cases and Text (with E.R. Livernash, Prentice-Hall); Employee Benefits Handbook (editor and contributing author Warren, Gorham & Lamont); Strategic Human Resources Management: A Guide for Effective Practice (Prentice-Hall), Human Resources Management: Readings (Prentice-Hall) and Executive Compensation: A Strategic Guide for the 1990s (Harvard Business School Press). Professor Foulkes has also written numerous articles, including five published in the Harvard Business Review, and has developed over 160 case studies. Professor Foulkes is the founder and director of the Human Resources Policy Institute. The Institute is a partnership between Boston University's Questrom School of Business faculty and senior human resources executives. Its members include the heads of human resources for over 45 large, global companies, including Colgate-Palmolive, CVS, Fidelity, HP, IBM, P&G, and Raytheon.
Education
DBA, Harvard Business School, 1968
MBA, Harvard Business School, 1965
AB, Princeton University, 1963
Publications
Foulkes, F. (2020). “Consistency will ease return to workplace decisions”, Human Resource Executive Magazine
Foulkes, F. (2020). “Consistency will ease return-to-workplace decisions”,
Foulkes, F. (2018). “Navigating the Pay Ratio Quagmire”, Human Resources Executive Magazine (43191), 42-42
Tsusaka, M., Smith, M., Foulkes, F., Hornig, G. (1999). “What went wrong at Captiva, and what should happen next?”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 77 (6), 42-+
FOULKES, F. (1992). “A PAY PLAN THAT WORKS”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 70 (2), 168-168
FOULKES, F., WHITMAN, A. (1985). “MARKETING STRATEGIES TO MAINTAIN FULL-EMPLOYMENT”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 63 (4), 30-&
FOULKES, F. (1985). “WHY BONUS PLANS ARE GOOD FOR BUSINESS”, PERSONNEL, 62 (8), 72-73
FOULKES, F., HIRSCH, J. (1984). “PEOPLE MAKE ROBOTS WORK”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 62 (1), 94-102
FOULKES, F. (1983). “DUE PROCESS”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 61 (2), 214-214
FOULKES, F. (1981). “HOW TOP NON-UNION COMPANIES MANAGE EMPLOYEES”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 59 (5), 90-96
FOULKES, F., MORGAN, H. (1977). “ORGANIZING AND STAFFING PERSONNEL FUNCTION”, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 55 (3), 142-154