The Institute for Management Studies (IMS) will present its 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Linda A. Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the school's Leadership Initiative. The award honors thought leaders whose work has made an enduring contribution to management and leadership, recognizing Dr. Hill's decades of scholarship spanning Becoming a Manager, Being the Boss, Collective Genius, and her new bestseller Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation (Crown, March 2026).
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Linda A. Hill - Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative.
Dr. Hill's research overturned the myth of the lone visionary, showing that breakthrough innovation depends on leaders who build the trust and creative conditions that let teams do their best thinking together.
“Dr. Hill has fundamentally changed how organizations understand innovation,” said Charles Good, President of IMS. “For the HR and talent development leaders in our member community, her work is a practical blueprint, not just a theory. We are honored to recognize her extraordinary contribution.”
“I am deeply honored to receive the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Institute for Management Studies,” said Dr. Hill. “Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of learning alongside leaders and organizations committed to creating environments where people can contribute their talents, collaborate across differences, and achieve something greater together. I am grateful to IMS for this recognition and for its enduring commitment to advancing the practice of leadership.”
Dr. Hill will be honored on September 8, 2026, during a special IMS program featuring a fireside conversation on leadership and innovation. Attendees, including chief human resources officers, learning and development executives, and senior leaders from IMS member organizations, will hear Dr. Hill discuss the research behind Genius at Scale and what it takes to drive innovation across organizations and ecosystems.
For more information about the September 8 program, contact the Institute for Management Studies at 775-322-8222 or charles@ims-online.com.
About Dr. Linda A. Hill
Dr. Hill has been named one of the world's top ten management thinkers by Thinkers50 (2013, 2021, and 2025), and her TED talk on managing for collective creativity has been viewed more than 2.6 million times.
About the Institute for Management Studies
Founded in 1974, the Institute for Management Studies gives HR, talent, and business leaders at member organizations across North America and Europe direct access to the researchers, authors, and practitioners that are shaping the future of work.
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