George Ward

George Ward is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His research focuses on workplace wellbeing, examining how factors like management practices, corporate culture, and organisational structure influence wellbeing differences between firms, and how these affect productivity, turnover, and firm value. Collaborating with platforms like Indeed, his work leverages large-scale survey data to analyze wellbeing across millions of workers and 110,000 firms. A related research stream explores political behavior and public policy, linking wellbeing to voting patterns, populism, and economic outcomes. Methodologically, he employs field experiments, computational methods, and causal inference with big data.

His interdisciplinary research spans management, economics, psychology, and political science, with publications in top journals like Management Science, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Current projects investigate the global rise of populism through a wellbeing lens and the emotional drivers of electoral outcomes.

While no formal grants or advisees are listed in the provided materials, his work emphasizes practical policy implications for both organizations and governments seeking to enhance wellbeing and stability in workplaces and societies.