How boards can overcome 5 key challenges to effectively governing innovation

Harvard Business School Professor Linda Hill provided studied insights during Directors & Dialogue December

Linda Hill, Ph.D., not only studies the link between what leaders do and whether their organizations can innovate time and again—she also seeks to answer the question: What does the senior management team need from the board to facilitate innovation?

The Wallace Brett Donham professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, Hill presented the session, “The Board’s New Innovation Imperative Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation” at Directors & Dialogue Decemberlast week. The program concluded with a third keynote on Dec. 16; recordings of all three sessions will be available for registered participants.

Governing innovation as boards must do “is actually really, really difficult work,” noted Hill, who called herself an “organizational anthropologist” because her work involves talking with business leaders about what they are doing and what is and is not working well for them.

 

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