{"109171":{"#nid":"109171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumnus Bill George Elected to National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBill George, IE 1964, Honorary PhD 2008, professor of\nmanagement practice at Harvard Business School, has been elected to the\nNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his accomplishments in applying\nengineering principles in manufacturing to advance health care.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EElection to NAE is among the highest professional\ndistinctions accorded to an engineer.\u0026nbsp;\nAcademy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions\nto \u0022engineering research, practice, or education, including, where\nappropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature,\u0022 and\nto the \u0022pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making\nmajor advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing\ninnovative approaches to engineering education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorge is the author of five best-selling books: \u003Cem\u003E7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, True North:\nDiscovering your Authentic Leadership, Finding Your True North (workbook),\nAuthentic Leadership\u003C\/em\u003E, and the recently released \u003Cem\u003ETrue North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership\nDevelopment\u003C\/em\u003E. At Harvard, George teaches leadership and leadership\ndevelopment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorge is the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic and\ncurrently serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs. He is also a\ntrustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the World Economic\nForum USA. He has made frequent appearances on television and radio, and his\narticles have appeared in numerous publications. He has been named to the \u201cTop\n25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years\u201d by PBS.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorge received his bachelor\u2019s in industrial engineering\nwith high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard\nUniversity, where he was a Baker Scholar, and honorary PhDs from Georgia Tech,\nSt. Thomas University, and Bryant University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1999, he and his wife Penny founded the George Family\nFoundation as a way to foster wholeness in mind, body, spirit, and community\nand to further the development of authentic leaders. Their interests include\nintegrative medicine, leadership, spirituality, and community.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georges, who reside in Minneapolis, MN, also support\nacademia at Georgia Tech through fellowships and an endowed chair in the area\nof health systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\nClick \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www8.nationalacademies.org\/onpinews\/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02092012\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\nfor a full list of newly elected NAE members and foreign associates follows.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBill George, IE 1964, Honorary PhD 2008, has been elected to the\nNational Academy of Engineering for his accomplishments in applying\nengineering principles in manufacturing to advance health care.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-02-14 10:04:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:40","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"74511":{"id":"74511","type":"image","title":"Bill George (BSIE 1964, Honorary PhD 2008)","body":null,"created":"1449178046","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:26","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"Bill George (BSIE 1964, Honorary PhD 2008)","file":{"fid":"193785","name":"bill_george_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bill_george_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bill_george_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":199183,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bill_george_0_0.jpg?itok=z1vnLyWF"}}},"media_ids":["74511"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1614","name":"bill george"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}