Georg WERNICKE

Georg Wernicke’s research is on topics in, and at the intersection of, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR), broadly defined. More specifically, he is interested in the drivers of public disapproval of firms’ practices, for example the compensation firms pay to their CEOs, how firms’ prosocial activities affect disapproval, and, in turn, which subset of firms and CEOs reacts to being targeted. Georg also analyzes how the characteristics and values of CEOs affect firm level outcomes such as corporate misconduct or the adoption of prosocial practices, as well as how demographic minority status affects labor-market outcomes for directors after occurrences of financial fraud. Furthermore, Georg engages in projects that explore the antecedents of superior firm performance on CSR.

Georg received his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Mannheim and is a graduate of the University College London and Humboldt University of Berlin. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Dissertation Award. His research won or was shortlisted for a number of Best Conference Papers Awards and been pubslished in Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal, besides others. As conference reviewer, he has been recognized with multiple Best Reviewer Awards.

Before joining the HEC Paris faculty, Georg was an Assistant Professor in Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School and a visiting scholar at Stern School of Business/NYU, the University of Antwerp, Kellogg School of Management/Northwestern University and at INSEAD. In Copenhagen, he taught courses in General Management, Corporate Governance, Sustainability and Social Responsibility as well as in Strategy and International Business. In 2016, he has been nominated for the CBS wide Best Teacher Award. At HEC Paris, Georg teaches Strategic Management.