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

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firm based in Chicago.

Education

Hamel was born on November 9, 1954, in

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. He graduated from

Andrews University Andrews University (Andrews) is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists and is the flag ...

in 1975, and from

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at the

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in 1990.

Career

Hamel has worked as a visiting professor of international business at the University of Michigan and at

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; he currently teaches as a visiting professor of

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at the

London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degree, Master's degrees in management and finance, Master of B ...

where he has been working for three decades.

Work

Gary Hamel is the originator (with C.K. Prahalad) of the concept of

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. 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. ''

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'' 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

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, 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

External links

Official site
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