Emily Truelove
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Emily Truelove is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches LEAD in the MBA program. She also teaches in the High Potentials Leadership Program as well as custom executive education programs.
Professor Truelove is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher and studies the changing nature of work inside established organizations experiencing the digital transformation of their industries. She focuses on how members inside these organizations come to work in new ways amidst the shifting power dynamics involved in working across new boundaries, both inside and outside the firm, as they attempt to transform their organizations. Professor Truelove also has a line of research in which she examines the relationship between leadership and innovation. She is a co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). Professor Truelove has served as a keynote speaker at conferences and corporate leadership development events across the world, and has designed and delivered custom workshops on her research for senior executives at organizations including American Express, Viacom and NASA. Her research has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Administrative Science Quarterly.
Professor Truelove has a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She has lived and worked in South Africa and Malaysia.
- Books
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- Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback. Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2014. View Details
- Journal Articles
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- Truelove, Emily, and Katherine C. Kellogg. "The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 2016): 662–701. View Details
- Book Chapters
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- Hill, Linda A., Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau, and Emily Stecker. "Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation." Chap. 21 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-110, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Systems Infrastructure at Google (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 410-111, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Masako Egawa, Emily Stecker, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities." Harvard Business School Case 409-112, April 2009. (Revised March 2013.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., Tarun Khanna, and Emily Stecker. "Vineet Nayar at HCL Unstructure 2008." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 409-712, April 2009. View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-029, August 2008. View Details
- Hill, Linda A., Tarun Khanna, and Emily Stecker. "HCL Technologies (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-004, August 2007. (Revised July 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., Tarun Khanna, and Emily Stecker. "HCL Technologies (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-006, August 2007. (Revised July 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-127, June 2008. (Revised July 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-128, June 2008. View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-057, May 2008. (Revised June 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kenny Kahn at Muzak (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-069, May 2008. View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 407-054, April 2007. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 407-055, April 2007. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 407-071, April 2007. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-019, April 2007. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Willa Seldon at Tides Center (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-072, May 2006. (Revised November 2006.) View Details
- Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Willa Seldon at Tides Center (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 406-087, June 2006. View Details
- Areas of Interest