BILL GEORGE
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Bill George

Bill George is a professor of Management Practice at HarvardBusiness School and former Chairman and Chief Executive officer of Medtronic. In his book True North: Discover your Authentic Leadership, co-written with Peter Sims, George draws on a series of interviews with 125 top managers in exploring the concept of leadership. George serves on the boards of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Goldman Sachs and Novartis AG. He is also a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and World Economic Forum USA. He was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard University, and was named one of the "Twenty-five Best Business Leaders of the Last 25 Years" by PBS in 2004.

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Philanthropy
11/20/2007

Description: Fostering global peace.

Transcript: How would I spend it? I’d spend a fair amount on three things: trying to foster global peace; trying to improve the state of healthcare in the world; and trying to improve education around the world. Because I think those three things . . . I think education . . . You can’t get anywhere without health. But health provides security, and education provides the basis for doing better, and can lead to a well-educated world, which also could lead to a more peaceful world.

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