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American management consultant (born 1954)
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Gary P. Hamel
Gary Hamel (left) interviews Eric Schmidt (right)
Born (1954-11-09) November 9, 1954 (age 70)
St. Joseph, Michigan, US
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

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

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.

Work

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 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. The idea of "strategic intent" embraces three attributes: direction, discovery and destiny.

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

Books

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

References

  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. CFO. "How CFOs Can Be Better Leaders in 2025 – Insights from Gary Hamel, Amy Edmondson, Anne Chow, and Nick Araco." Accessed December 27, 2024. Available at: https://www.cfo.com/news/how-cfos-can-be-better-leaders-in-2025-Gary-Hamel-Amy-Edmonson-Anne-Chow-Nick-Araco/733041/
  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. ^ "Author". www.garyhamel.com. Retrieved November 26, 2023.

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