Faculty and Research

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She is the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative and has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young Presidents' Organization Presidents' Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program. She is a former faculty chair of the Organizational Behavior unit. She was coursehead during the development of the new Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course. She is the author of Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership (2nd Edition). She is also author of course modules: Managing Your Career, Managing Teams, and Power and Influence and of award-winning multimedia management development programs High Performance Management, Coaching, and Managing for Performance. She is the author of two e-learning programs: Stepping up to Management and Harvard ManageMentor. Hill has authored HBR articles and is a contributor to the Harvard Business School Publishing series on Managing Up, Hiring, and Becoming a New Manager.  Professor Hill's consulting and executive education activities have been in the areas of managing change, managing cross-organizational relationships, implementing global strategy, innovation, talent management, and leadership development.

Hill has two books forthcoming from Harvard Business Press, one on being the boss (in the 21st century context) and the other leadership for innovation. Organizations with which Professor Hill has worked include General Electric, Reed Elsevier, Accenture, Pfizer, IBM, MasterCard, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, the National Bank of Kuwait, Areva, and The Economist.

Professor Hill is a member of the Boards of Directors of State Street Corporation and Cooper Industries. She is a Fellow at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc.  She is a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund USA, The Bridgespan Group, Bryn Mawr College, and The Children's Museum, Boston. She is a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program. She is serves on the Editorial Board of the Leadership Quarterly.

Dr. Hill did a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Business School and earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in measurement and evaluation from the University of Chicago. She has an A.B., summa cum laude, in psychology from Bryn Mawr College.