Linda A. Hill

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration
Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative
Harvard Business School

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Chair of the Leadership Initiative. She is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on leadership and innovation. Hill has been named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers globally (2013, 2021, and 2025) and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. She is also the recipient of the Greenhill Award and the Greenhill Service Award, recognizing extraordinary contributions to the Harvard Business School community.

Hill is the author or co-author of numerous award-winning articles and books, including Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership. Collective Genius was named by Business Insider as one of “The 20 Best Business Books” and selected for the inaugural Thinkers50 Booklist of management classics. Her TED Talk on managing for collective creativity has been viewed more than 3 million times.

Her latest book, Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2026), introduces three essential roles for leading innovation across organizations and ecosystems—architect, bridger, and catalyst—and has been shortlisted for the 2025 Thinkers50 Innovation Award.

Hill’s research and consulting focus on leadership development, innovation, digital transformation, and global strategy implementation. She is a co-founder of Paradox Strategies and InnovationForce, a SaaS company that uses AI and machine learning to accelerate innovation, named by Fast Company as an “Innovative Company to Watch” in 2023 and 2024.

She serves on the boards of Relay Therapeutics, The Kresge Foundation, ArtCenter College of Design, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and on advisory boards including the Aspen Institute, the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Hill earned her Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College.