Emily Truelove

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.

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 and lives outside of Boston with her husband and their three children.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Business School (2019)
• Partner Paradox Strategies (2015)
• Ph.D. student in Organization Studies MIT Sloan School of Management (2011)
• Co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Harvard Business School (2005 — 2014)
• Director of New Program Development ICEDR (2009 — 2011)
• Research Associate Harvard Business School (2005 — 2008)
• English Language Lecturer Universiti Sains Malaysia (through Princeton in Asia) (2004 — 2005)
• Summer Intern Teach for America (2003 — 2003)

BOOKS

• 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.