Will Harvey

Will Harvey is a Professor of Leadership and Director of the Sustainable Value Creation Institute. He is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and a Board Director of WISE Employment.

Will has held the roles of Director of Education at the University of Bristol and Associate Dean of Research and Associate Dean of Global at the University of Exeter. He has worked at the University of Oxford, the University of British Columbia and the University of Sydney. For five years he was the Chair of the Board of Libraries Unlimited.

Will researches on reputation, talent management and leadership within organisations. He has published two books on social purpose and reputation, both with Oxford University Press. His work has appeared in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, Management Learning, Work, Employment & Society, and the British Journal of Management.

Will’s work has featured in the Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Fortune, Wired and The Conversation. He has worked with leaders across the world in a variety of sectors, including banking, consulting, defence, education, energy, finance, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, social enterprises and retail.

Will is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). He has won several university and business school awards, and he was the finalist for a Times Higher Education national award.

Will received a first class degree from the University of Durham, an MPhil with distinction and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He spent a year on undergraduate exchange at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting scholar during his PhD at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Most Notable Research

Harvey, W. S., Newman, A. & Ward-Christie, L. (Eds.) (2026). The Oxford Handbook of Social Purpose. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Harvey, W. S., Arora, N., Currie, G., & Spyridonidis, D. (2025). Why Individuals Commit Professional Misconduct and What Leaders Can Do to Prevent It. California Management Review, 67(3), 144-163.

Lee, A., Newman, A., Maio, G. R., Piplani, R. S., & Harvey, W. S. (2025). Leader-follower value congruence: A systematic review of the literature and a future research agenda. The Leadership Quarterly, 36(6), 101922.

Harvey, W.S. (2023). Reputations at Stake. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Harvey, W. S., Osman, S., & Tourky, M. (2022). Building internal reputation from organisational values. Corporate Reputation Review, 25(1), 19-32.

Harvey W.S. and Arora, N.K. (2021). Educating Incarcerated Professionals: Challenges and Lessons from an Extreme PhD Context. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(4): 461-467.

Harvey, W.S., Mitchell, V-W., Almeida Jones, A. and Knight, E. (2021). The tensions of defining and developing thought leadership within knowledge-intensive firms. Journal of Knowledge Management, 25(11), 1-33.

Abdul Manaf, H., Harvey, W.S., Armstrong, S.J., Lawton, A. (2020). Differences in personality and the sharing of managerial tacit knowledge: an empirical analysis of public sector managers in Malaysia. Journal of Knowledge Management, 24(5): 1177-1199.

Harvey, W.S., Beaverstock, J.V. and Li, H. (2019). Common threats and managing reputation in executive search firms. British Journal of Management, 30(4): 847-868.

Mitchell, V.W. and Harvey, W.S. (2018). How preferable and possible is management research-led teaching impact? Management Learning, 49(3): 363-373.

Velamuri, R., Venkataraman, S. and Harvey, W.S. (2017). Seizing the Ethical High Ground: Ethical Reputation Building in Corrupt Environments. Journal of Management Studies, 54(5): 647-675.

Harvey, W.S., Morris, T. and Müller Santos, M. (2017). Reputation and identity conflict in management consulting. Human Relations, 70(1) 92-118.

Velamuri, R., Harvey, W.S. and Venkataraman, S. (2017). Being an Ethical Business in a Corrupt Environment. Harvard Business Review.

Van den Broek, D., Harvey, W.S. and Groutsis, D. (2016). Commercial Migration Intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment. Work, Employment and Society, 30(3): 523-534.