Georg Wernicke

Georg Wernicke is an assistant professor at the Strategy & Business Policy Department at HEC Paris. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Dissertation Award. Before joining HEC Paris, Georg was a faculty member at Copenhagen Business School and a visiting scholar at INSEAD (2017), Northwestern University (2016), the University of Antwerp (2015) and New York University (2010). Georg’s research is on topics in, and at the intersection of, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He is especially interested in topics on the drivers of public disapproval of firms’ practices, for example the compensation firms pay to their CEOs, how firms’ pro-social activities affect disapproval, and, in turn, which subset of firms and CEOs reacts to being targeted. https://www.georg-wernicke.com/

Latest Articles by Georg Wernicke

  1. CSR, corporate social responsibility

    25 July, 2018

    When doing good garners bad press

    Firms that engage in corporate social outreach should make sure they send consistent signals, or they risk their actions being interpreted as a sign of bad conscience.