Linda Hill, Harvard Business School Prof

Today my guest is Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Linda is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation and is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press 2014), co-founder of Innovation Force and Paradox Strategies, and co-creator of the Innovation Quotient and re:Route.

She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and 2021 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. Linda’s Collective Genius has also been named to the inaugural Thinkers50 Booklist: 10 Management Classics for 2022. Linda has chaired and presently chairs numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents’ Organization Presidents’ Seminar, the High Potentials Leadership Program,  Leading in the Digital Era, and Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation. She was course-head during the development of the Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course. Linda holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MA/PhD from University of Chicago.