Dr. Gary P. Hamel is an American

United States

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 management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting

Management consulting

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 firm based in Chicago

Chicago

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.

Early life

He is a graduate of Andrews University

Andrews University

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 (1975) and the Ross School of Business

Ross School of Business

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 at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 (1990)

Career

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

Core competency

A core competency is a concept in management theory originally advocated by CK Prahalad, and Gary Hamel, two business book writers. In their view a core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it, or its employees, works...

. He is also the director of the Woodside Institute, a nonprofit research foundation based in Woodside, California.

He is a visiting Professor

Professor

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 of Strategic Management

Strategy

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 at London Business School

London Business School

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. He was formerly a Visiting Professor

Professor

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 of International Business at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 (PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 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

Enron

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. Following the critical 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"

Achievements

The Wall Street Journal in 2008 has 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".

External links

• Official site
• Management Innovation Exchange is one of Gary Hamel's newest projects where he talks about the need to reinvent management for the next century
• MLab website
• Gary Hamel Biography on the World Business Forum
  World Business Forum
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  where Hamel is a featured speaker for the 2011 event