Gary Hamel
Template:Short description Template:Like resume Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person 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.
Education
Hamel was born on November 9, 1954, in St. Joseph, Michigan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He graduated from Andrews University in 1975, and from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1990.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref>
Career
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. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> 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.<ref>Harvard Business Review, Strategic Intent by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, HBR Magazine, published July-August 2005, accessed on 11 October 2024</ref> The idea of "strategic intent" embraces three attributes: direction, discovery and destiny.<ref>Value Based Management.net, Direction, Discovery and Destiny, accessed on 11 October 2024</ref>
Harvard Business Review has available 20 articles by Gary Hamel and Hamel books are available in 25 languages.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Wall Street Journal ranked Gary Hamel as one of the world's most influential business thinkers,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Fortune magazine has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy" <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Financial Times referred him as a ''management innovator without peer"<ref>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/</ref> In 2013, his name was not present on an updated version of the Wall Street Journal list.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He is also a member of the Reliance Innovation Council formed by Reliance Industries Limited, India.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> As stated by Forbes Hamel ranked number 5 in the 10 most influential business gurus for 2007.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Books
- Humanocracy (2020) <ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
- What Matters Now (2012) <ref name=":0" />
- The Future of Management (2007) <ref name=":0" />
- Leading The Revolution (2000) <ref name=":0" />
- Competing For the Future (1994) <ref name=":0" />