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Gary Hamel

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Gary P. Hamel
Gary Hamel (left) interviews Eric Schmidt (right)
Born (1954-11-09) November 9, 1954 (age 69)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Occupation(s)Author, professional speaker, management consultant
Websitegaryhamel.com

Gary P. Hamel (born November 9, 1954) is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.

Biography

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Hamel was born on November 9, 1954, in St. Joseph, Michigan.[1] He graduated from Andrews University in 1975, and from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1990.[2]

Hamel has worked as a visiting professor of international business at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School; he currently teaches as a visiting professor of strategic management at the London Business School where he has been working for three decades. [3]

Work

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Gary Hamel is the originator (with C.K. Prahalad) of the concept of core competencies. He is also the director of the Woodside Institute, a nonprofit research foundation based in Woodside, California. He was a founder of the consulting firm Strategos, serving as chairman until 2003. The UTEK Corporation acquired Strategos in 2008 in an all-stock transaction as reported by the SEC. In 2012 Strategos[4] became an independent strategy and innovation consultancy once again through a management buy-out.

Hamel and Prahalad introduced the idea of "strategic intent" in a 1989 article published in the Harvard Business Review.[5] The idea of "strategic intent" embraces three attributes: direction, discovery and destiny.[6]

Harvard Business Review has available 20 articles by Gary Hamel and Hamel books are available in 25 languages.[7] The Wall Street Journal ranked Gary Hamel as one of the world's most influential business thinkers,[8] and Fortune magazine has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy" [9] and Financial Times referred him as a ''management innovator without peer".[10] In 2013, his name was not present on an updated version of the Wall Street Journal list.[11] He is also a member of the Reliance Innovation Council formed by Reliance Industries Limited, India.[12] As stated by Forbes Hamel ranked number 5 in the 10 most influential business gurus for 2007.[13]

Books

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  • Humanocracy (2020) [14]
  • What Matters Now (2012) [14]
  • The Future of Management (2007) [14]
  • Leading The Revolution (2000) [14]
  • Competing For the Future (1994) [14]

References

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  1. ^ Hill, Andrew (March 3, 2012). "Still on the cusp of a revolution". Financial Times.
  2. ^ Dividend (PDF), University of Michigan, 1993.
  3. ^ "Gary Hamel". London Business School. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  4. ^ Strategos.
  5. ^ Harvard Business Review, Strategic Intent by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, HBR Magazine, published July-August 2005, accessed on 11 October 2024
  6. ^ Value Based Management.net, Direction, Discovery and Destiny, accessed on 11 October 2024
  7. ^ "About Gary Hamel". www.garyhamel.com. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  8. ^ "Gary Hamel Sees "More Options: Fewer Grand Visions"". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
  9. ^ "Hamel, Gary | Institute of Coaching". instituteofcoaching.org. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  10. ^ "Author". www.garyhamel.com. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  11. ^ "Celebrity Economists Make Waves". The Wall Street Journal. July 3, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  12. ^ "Innovation", Our company, RIL, archived from the original on December 1, 2015, retrieved July 1, 2015.
  13. ^ "In Pictures: The 10 Most Influential Business Gurus". Forbes. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  14. ^ a b c d e "Author". www.garyhamel.com. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
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