Emily Truelove

Emily Truelove is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA program. She also teaches in executive education programs, including Leadership for Senior Executives, High Potentials Leadership Program, Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, and custom programs.

Professor Truelove’s research is at the intersection of leadership, organizational change and technological innovation. She is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who studies organizations undergoing major transformation efforts due to technological change. Her particular interest is in the cultural, political and emotional challenges that these transformations bring leaders and employees. 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. She has designed and delivered custom workshops on her research for senior executives at organizations including Qatar Energy, 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.