Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel, a graduate of Andrews University (1975) and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (1990^[2]) is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago, and a visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School. He 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 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"

Biography

Hamel and his family live in Woodside, California^[3],^[4].

Publications

Key publications include:

• 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

• Hamel's homepage
• Strategos homepage
• MLab website

References

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