Gerry George

Gerry George is Senior Advisor at private equity firm TPG. He is on leave from MSB as the Tamsen and Michael Brown (B’94) Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at McDonough School of Business. Previously, he served as Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University. An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published extensively in innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tackling grand challenges in society, and achieved the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher distinction for Cross-Field Impact. Before joining SMU, he was Deputy Dean of Imperial College Business School, Founding Director of the Gandhi Centre, and Academic Director of the London Stock Exchange’s Elite Program, which supports ambitious private companies through their next stage of growth. Before Imperial, he earned tenure at London Business School and University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Editor of the Academy of Management Journal, the flagship empirical journal in the field of management. He teaches Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses across EMBA, MBA and UG programs at MSB.

His research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on organization design, governance, social inclusion, and sustainability. Among other distinctions, he was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council to work on socially-inclusive innovation in healthcare, natural resources, and energy. His forthcoming book on Venture Meets Mission: Rebuilding Trust to Create the Future We Want (with Arun Gupta and Tom Fewer) will be published by Stanford University Press in 2024. His other co-authored books include Handbook on the Business of Sustainability (Edward Elgar, 2022), Handbook of Inclusive Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2019), Managing Natural Resources (Edward Elgar, 2018), The Business Model Book (Pearson, 2018), Implausible Opportunities (Cambridge Press, 2012), and Inventing Entrepreneurs (Pearson, 2009). He received an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen for contributions to the fields of strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship. He was conferred Fellowship of the City & Guilds of London Institute and Distinguished Alumnus Award from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (Pilani). He is Senior Global Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies and Visiting Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University.

Expertise

Change Management/Business Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Innovation, Science Technology and Innovation, Sustainability

Education

• 1997 Ph.D. in Management, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 1994 Master of Management Studies Master of Science (Honours) in Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India

Awards & Honors

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India 2020 - Present
• Doctorate in Economics, Honoris Causa, University of St. Gallen 2018 - Present
• Fellow, City & Guilds of London Institute 2015 - Present
• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 2013 - Present
• Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics 2019 - 2021