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Gary Hamel
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. BiographyHamel 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] WorkGary 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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