Program Chair: Women’s Leadership Initiative
Program Chair: Women’s Leadership: Adapting and Advocating in a Remote Environment
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law, Professor of Management at Georgetown University
Hillary is also an award-winning scholar and teacher, and the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance and a Professor of Management at Georgetown University and was the Associate Dean for Strategy from 2020-2023. As an industry-focused academic, she writes and speaks about leadership and corporate governance. In the spring of 2017, she was the Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, teaching Women’s Leadership and Corporate Boards and Governance.
She is an accomplished business partner who speaks to and works with industry groups and academic audiences and runs leadership programs in companies and firms. Hillary consults regularly with CEOs, C-suite executives, boards, and partners on leadership, governance, strategy, inclusion, and culture. She also develops custom leadership programs and works with leaders in programs at Harvard Law, where she Chairs the Women’s Leadership Initiative, and at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and at Georgetown Law.
Hillary graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and holds a master’s degree in Economics from Boston University, where she also completed her B.A., summa cum laude. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, she was the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and a Professor of Management at Washington University in St. Louis. Hillary also worked in the government investigations and corporate and securities class actions areas at WilmerHale, LLP and in Massachusetts politics.