| Gary P. Hamel | |
| Birth Date: | 9 November 1954 |
| Birth Place: | St. Joseph, Michigan, US |
| Occupation: | Author, professional speaker, management consultant |
| Website: | garyhamel.com |
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.
Hamel was born on November 9, 1954, in St. Joseph, Michigan.[1] He graduated from Andrews University in 1975, and from Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1990.[2]
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. [3]
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[4] became an independent strategy and innovation consultancy once again through a management buy-out. Harvard Business Review has available 20 articles by Gary Hamel and Hamel books are available in 25 languages.[5]
The Wall Street Journal ranked Gary Hamel as one of the world's most influential business thinkers,[6] and Fortune magazine has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy" [7] and Financial Times referred him as a ''management innovator without peer".[8] In 2013, his name was not present on an updated version of the Wall Street Journal list.[9] He is also a member of the Reliance Innovation Council formed by Reliance Industries Limited, India.[10] As stated by Forbes Hamel ranked number 5 in the 10 most influential business gurus for 2007.[11]