Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative, and one of the world's top experts on leadership and innovation. Recognized among the world’s top management thinkers, most recently ranking #4 in the Thinkers50 (2025), she also received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (2015) and was named an Innovation Luminary at the FEI25 Awards (2025).
Hill has authored or co-authored many influential and award-winning books, articles, and multi-media programs, including the acclaimed Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, 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 over 3.1 million views. She also co- authored Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, which the Wall Street Journal named one of the “Five Best Business Books to Read for your Career.”
Hill is the author and coauthor of several acclaimed leadership books, award-winning multimedia programs, and numerous HBR articles. In 2025, she was ranked #4 on the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers.
2008
Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
2011
Being the Boss was cited by The Wall Street Journal as a top business book of 2011
2014
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
2014
TED Talk How to Manage for Collective Creativity
2016
Collective Genius named one of the 10 Management Classics by Thinkers50
2025
Named one of six Innovation Luminaries at the FEI25 Awards for her groundbreaking work on leading innovation at scale.
2025
Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation
Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
Being the Boss was cited by The Wall Street Journal as a top business book of 2011
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
TED Talk How to Manage for Collective Creativity
Collective Genius named one of the 10 Management Classics by Thinkers50
Named one of six Innovation Luminaries at the FEI25 Awards for her groundbreaking work on leading innovation at scale.
Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation
Hill co-founded Paradox Strategies, a boutique advisory firm, to provide exclusive access to her research and insights. She also co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI to accelerate innovation, recognized by Fast Company as an “Innovative Company to Watch” in 2023 and 2024. She serves on several boards, including Relay Therapeutics, The Kresge Foundation, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and advises organizations such as the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
