by Bill George - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2010
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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations

Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Financial Services

25 Sep 2019
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Corporate Purpose and Firm Ownership

Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim

30 Sep 2010
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Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?

Keywords: by Joanne Horton, George Serafeim & Ioanna Serafeim

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

08 May 2014
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Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective

Keywords: by Robert Eccles & George Serafeim

22 Jul 2011
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim

13 Mar 2017
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Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

Keywords: by Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim

14 Nov 2011
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting

02 Sep 2009
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Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas and Bid-Ask Spreads

Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & George Serafeim; Banking

06 Dec 2011
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What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies’ Transparency?

Keywords: by Paul Healy, Venkat Kuppuswamy & George Serafeim; Energy; Utilities

22 Jul 2016
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Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

Keywords: by Paul Healy and George Serafeim

June 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Leading by Values: Sam Palmisano and IBM

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Information Technology Industry

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Corporate Bond Pricing and Different Sources of Asset Return Volatility (with George Chacko and Jens Hilscher)

This paper presents a pricing model for defaultable bonds. Default is defined by a cash flow, not value, covenant. The cash flow (total distributions) yield is stochastic. We find that different sources of volatility, cash flow versus discount rate news, affect... View Details

11 Sep 2014
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Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Keywords: by Kathleen Miller & George Serafeim

22 Jan 2019
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Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?

Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

04 Dec 2019
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Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

Keywords: by Jean Rogers and George Serafeim

06 Sep 2012
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FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

Keywords: by Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim & Gwen Yu

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

Bill George boasts long and successful executive stints at Honeywell, Litton Industries, and Medtronic—plus, he coined the term “authentic leadership.” Now, he says he and his fellow Baby Boomers need to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert