Fortune magazine has labeled Gary Hamel “the world’s leading expert on business strategy” and The Economist calls him “the world’s reigning strategy guru.”
Recently, the Wall Street Journal ranked Hamel as #1 among the Top 20 most influential business thinkers, along with business pioneers such as Michael Porter and Bill Gates. For the past three years, Executive Excellence magazine has ranked Hamel as the world’s most influential management speaker.
Hamel’s landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management (Harvard Business School Press, October 2007), was voted Best Business Book of 2007 by the editors of Amazon.com.
Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and many other business publications around the world.
Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School were he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.
As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for companies as diverse as General Electric, Time Warner, Nokia, Nestle, Shell, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation” have changed the practice of management in companies around the world. As one of the world’s most sought after management speakers, Hamel has addressed the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 Global Summit and many other similarly prestigious gatherings. Hamel has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.
At present, Hamel is leading an effort to build the world’s first “Management Innovation Lab.” The Lab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and world renowned management scholars work together to co-create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. The goal: radically accelerating the evolution of management knowledge and practice.
Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society.
Publications
- “The Why, What and How of Management Innovation”
Harvard Business Review, February 2006 - “Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity”
Harvard Business Review, July–August 2004 [with Gary Getz] - “The Quest for Resilience”
Harvard Business Review, September 2003 [with Liisa Valikangas] - “The World Bank’s Innovation Market”
Harvard Business Review, November 2002 [with Robert Chapman Wood] - “Waking Up IBM”
Harvard Business Review, July–August 2000 - “Bringing Silicon Valley Inside”
Harvard Business Review, September–October 1999 - “Strategy as Revolution”
Harvard Business Revolution, July–August 1996 - “Competing for the Future”
Harvard Business Review, July–August 1994 [with C.K. Prahalad] - “The Core Competence of the Corporation”
Harvard Business Review, May–June 1990 [with C.K. Prahalad] - “What CEOs Can Learn from America”
Fortune, November 12, 2001, Vol. 144, Issue 9 - “Reinvent Your Company”
Fortune, June 12, 2000, Vol. 141, Issue 12, p 44 - “Killer strategies”
Fortune, June 23, 1997, Vol. 135, Issue 12, p 70
Miscellany
- The Ultimate Business Library
Capstone Publishing, 1997 [foreword and commentary] - Rethinking the Future
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1997 [contribution, “Reinventing the Basis for Competition]
