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William W. George

Professor of Management Practice

William W. George

William W. George

Professor of Management Practice

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William W. George Biography

Bill George is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004, and the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He is the author of four best-selling books: Authentic Leadership, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership; Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide; and 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis. True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development, his most recent book, was published in September 2011. Professor George is currently the faculty chair of HBS’s Executive Education program Authentic Leadership Development.

He joined Medtronic in 1989 as President and Chief Operating Officer, was Chief Executive Officer from 1991-2001, and Chairman of the Board from 1996 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he was an executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. George currently serves as a director of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, and also recently served on the board of Novartis and Target. He is also currently a trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, World Economic Forum USA and the Guthrie Theater. He has served as chair of the board of Allina Health System, Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, United Way of the Greater Twin Cities, and Advamed.

Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar, and honorary PhDs from Georgia Tech and Bryant University. During 2002-03 he was professor at IMD International and Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, Switzerland, and executive-in-residence at Yale School of Management.

He has been named one of the "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS; "Executive of the Year-2001" by the Academy of Management; and "Director of the Year-2001-02" by the National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. George makes frequent appearances on television and radio, and his columns are published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Fortune.

He and his wife Penny split their time between Cambridge and Minnesota, where Penny runs their family foundation and is deeply involved in integrative medicine. They have two sons: Jeff George, who lives in Munich, Germany with his wife Renee Will and daughters Dylan and Stella; and Jon George, MD, who lives in San Francisco with his wife Jeannette Lager, MD, son Freeman, and daughter Jade.

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