Financial Fluency for Business Management

Jon Fay is an instructor in the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University and Managing Partner of Wilson Alan LLC, a boutique strategy consultancy. At Harvard, he has designed and led multiple Professional & Executive Development programs. Within the Harvard Extension School, he has designed and led courses on strategic business insight, behavioral decision-making, and financial fluency for business management. Fay's corporate work has spanned executive, consulting, and start-up roles. As a Vice President at the consulting firm now known as Oliver Wyman, Fay worked with both leading corporations and start-up ventures to formulate and execute successful business strategies. He created the firm's Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Interactive Strategy Models practices. He later co-founded Wilson Alan LLC, a specialty consulting firm that focuses on executive development and strategic alignment, helping companies build their own strategic thinking skills. Fay was also a Vice President at EMC Corporation (now Dell Technologies), a $25 billion technology company. At EMC, he worked with senior executives on strategic alignment and also served as global head of EMC University, the corporate university for EMC's 80,000 plus employees. Early in his career, he did a stint as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, a brief but formative experience (the building he worked in is the setting for Apple TV's Severance), as well as leading product development for a west coast technology start-up during the original dot com gold rush. Fay attended Harvard College as an undergraduate (AB in economics, summa cum laude). As a graduate student at Harvard, he was awarded both a National Science Foundation fellowship and a Harvard Business Economics fellowship.