Professor Bill George - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 11, 2012
Article

Charlotte's Competitive Muscle

By: Bill George and Jim Rogers

March 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Supplement

Lisa Sherman (B)

By: Bill George and Jens Audenaert

The case of Lisa Sherman (B) describes a highly successful executive at Verizon, who decides to leave the company because of the negative views of gays and lesbians expressed at a diversity training workshop, and her final meeting with Verizon CEO Ray Smith to describe... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Personal Development and Career; Retention; Resignation and Termination; Diversity; Government and Politics

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24 Jan 2017
News

Call to Create Jobs, or Else, Tests Trump’s Sway

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a leader's most important role), and authentic leadership... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

job search? MB: There are amazing professors at HBS doing cutting-edge research in this space, so you don’t want to miss the opportunity to learn from people like Nitin Nohria, Bill George, Linda Hill, Boris... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

thinking too much or thinking too little. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6630.html. From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher During a panel discussion on entrepreneurship, Professor View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His... View Details

29 Oct 2009
News

Focus on Short-Term Hurts Companies

24 Nov 2010
News

Last Look - December 2010

LAST ISSUE’S LAST LOOK: Identifications of this photo were wide-ranging. Bob Grano (MBA ’56) identified eleven classmates: at the table, back to camera, Bill Spence, Larry Staples, unknown; facing forward, View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

01 Oct 2000
News

The Class of 1975 in Review

question that often surfaces in conversations as we approach our 25th Reunion is: Did Harvard change us, or did we change Harvard? Well, certainly Professor Bill ("I never left HBS") Sahlman can say that he... View Details

Keywords: J. Hans Stumm

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ESG Investing: What It Is and How to Use It

Integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions has been adopted by an increasing number of investors. However, there is still substantial confusion about how ESG investing can be used, when it can deliver better risk-adjusted... View Details

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Supporting our Exceptional Faculty

practitioners. It was a particular honor for me to be named the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business in 1998. Established 60 years ago, this chair helped launch agribusiness as a field of... View Details

Keywords: David E. Bell; professorships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

Christopher Poliquin. “It would take approximately 66 people dying in individual gun homicide incidents to have as much impact on bills introduced as each person who dies in a mass shooting” The researchers constructed a dataset of all... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jun 2019
News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

Illustration by Decue Wu HBS professor Deepak Malhotra recalls the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a tragedy that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six staff members... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Apr 1999
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

their membership. This year's candidates are: Thomas E. Everhart, AB '53, magna cum laude; MS '55, UCLA; PhD '58, University of Cambridge, England. President Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, California... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

York City discussing the post–Great Recession economy with investors Bill Ackman (MBA 1992), Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), and Stan Druckenmiller. The students were participants in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) led by Arthur Segel, the Poorvu... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
Case

Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally

By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred

Omar Ishrak, Medtronic's first non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details