Gary Hamel
Gary P. Hamel is an American management thinker, author, and speaker born on November 9, 1954, in St. Joseph, Michigan. He co-founded Strategos, a global management-consulting firm based in Chicago, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and for three decades as a visiting professor of strategic management at London Business School. Hamel helped create the idea of core competencies with C.K. Prahalad and co-founded the concept of strategic intent, introduced in a 1989 Harvard Business Review article that describes direction, discovery, and destiny.
He serves as director of the Woodside Institute, a nonprofit research foundation in California, and led Strategos from its founding in 1995 until 2003. Strategos was acquired by UTEK in 2008 and became independent again in 2012 after a management buy-out. Hamel has written extensively for the Harvard Business Review, with his work translated into 25 languages. The Wall Street Journal has quoted him as one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, Fortune has called him the leading expert on business strategy, and the Financial Times has dubbed him a management innovator without peer. He is a member of the Reliance Innovation Council in India, and Forbes ranked him among the 10 most influential business gurus in 2007. More information is available at garyhamel.com.
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