Managing and leading — the two sides of
being the boss — are difficult and growing even harder.
You must get the best from your people in a tough
environment, meet the ever rising expectations of your
organization, satisfy increasing customer demands and,
on top of all that, prepare yourself for greater
challenges.
In this webinar, Harvard Business School
Professor Linda Hill will discuss how to evaluate your
skills and then build a plan to enable you to become the
great boss you need to be.
Linda A. Hill, Ph.D., 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 at Harvard Business School, and she was coursehead
during the development of the new Leadership and
Organizational Behavior MBA required course. She is the
author of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of
Becoming a Great Leader and Becoming a Manager:
How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
(2nd Edition). She is 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.
Professor Hill is a member of the Boards of Directors of
State Street Corporation, Cooper Industries, and Harvard
Business Publishing. She is a trustee of the Nelson
Mandela Children's Fund USA, The Bridgespan Group, and
Bryn Mawr College. 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 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 a B.A., summa cum laude, in psychology
from Bryn Mawr College.
