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Bill George

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Bill George

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Harvard Business School

Bill George abre em uma nova guia/janela is Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School (HBS) abre em uma nova guia/janela, where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of: Emerging Leader Edition of True North abre em uma nova guia/janelaDiscover Your True North abre em uma nova guia/janela and The Discover Your True North Fieldbook abre em uma nova guia/janelaAuthentic Leadership abre em uma nova guia/janelaTrue North abre em uma nova guia/janelaFinding Your True North abre em uma nova guia/janela7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis abre em uma nova guia/janela and True North Groups abre em uma nova guia/janela.

He was chair and CEO of Medtronic abre em uma nova guia/janela, the world’s leading medical technology company. Under his leadership, Medtronic’s market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35 percent a year. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, was CEO from 1991 to 2001, and was chair of the board from 1996 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he was an executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the US Department of Defense. He has served as a director of Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, the Mayo Clinic, and World Economic Forum USA. He received the 2014 Bower Award for Business Leadership and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has been named one of the Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years by PBS, Executive of the Year by Academy of Management, and Director of the Year by National Association of Corporate Directors. Bill received a BS in industrial engineering with high honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar. He has received honorary PhDs from Georgia Tech, Mayo Medical School, University of St Thomas, Augsburg College and Bryant University. He and his wife, Penny, reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota.