Gary Hamel
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| Dr Gary P. Hamel | |
| Born | 1954 [1] |
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| Occupation | Author, Professional speaker, Consultant, Management expert |
| Website garyhamel.com |
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Dr. Gary P. Hamel is an American management guru. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.
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[edit] Early life
He is a graduate of Andrews University (1975) and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (1990[2])
[edit] Career
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 is a visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School. He was formerly a Visiting Professor of International Business at the University of Michigan (PhD 1990) and at Harvard Business School.
His academic standing took a dent soon after publication of the hardback version of Leading the Revolution, in which he had written a very positive profile of Enron. Following the strong reception of Leading the Revolution, Hamel began work on resilience in business strategy. He wrote of the concept in a 2003 Harvard Business Review article entitled "The Quest for Resilience"
[edit] Personal life
Hamel and his family live in Woodside, California[3],[4].
[edit] Bibliography
- The Core Competence of the Corporation (Harvard Business Review) (1990)
- Strategy as Revolution (Harvard Business Review) (1996)
- Competing for the future (with C. K. Prahalad) (Harvard Business School Press, April 1996) ISBN 978-0875847160
- Alliance Advantage: The Art of Creating Value Through Partnering (with Yves L. Doz) (Harvard Business School Press, September 1998) ISBN 978-0875846163
- Strategic Flexibility: Managing in a Turbulent Environment (with C. K. Prahalad, Howard Thomas and Don O'Neal) (Wiley, 5 January 1999) ISBN 978-0471984733
- Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business School Press, 2000) ISBN 9780452283244
- The Quest for Resilience (Harvard Business Review) (2003)
- The Future of Management (with Bill Breen) (Harvard Business School Press, 10 September 2007) ISBN 978-1422102503
- "Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity" (with Gary Getz) (Harvard Business Review, July-August, 2004)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Strategos homepage
- MLab website
- Gary Hamel Biography on the World Business Forum where Hamel is a featured speaker for the 2009 event
- Management & Innovation in a Changing World Special Management Program featuring Gary Hamel

