William “Bill” Boulding is an accomplished scholar with a passion for helping advance business as a force for good.
Bill has advocated at the top levels of government, industry and academia for ways that enable business to improve society. His passionate belief in creating future business leaders who have the ability to bring people who are very different together to work toward a common goal led to the school’s number-one ranking by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2014. He is a sought-after expert by the media on leadership trends and the qualities needed to succeed today, and has been interviewed by CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, among others. He shares his insights regularly on LinkedIn and was named a Top Voice on the platform in 2016. He also writes for Fortune and Harvard Business Review.
Bill is currently chair of the Board of Directors of Duke Corporate Education, board member of The New York Climate Exchange, and serves on Swarthmore College’s Board of Managers.
Bill has a research interest in evaluating how managers make decisions and how consumers respond. His recent work focuses on the domain of health care, examining the role of the patient experience, clinical adherence to standards and managerial activity in determining the quality of delivered care. His work has been widely published in a number of journals and Bill has been the recipient of numerous research and teaching awards.
Bill received his BA in Economics from Swarthmore College and his PhD in Managerial Sciences and Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.