Gary Hamel


Fortune magazine labels Gary Hamel “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.” The Economist calls Hamel “the world’s reigning strategy guru.” Hamel’s landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages.

The Journal of Business Strategy recently listed Hamel as one of the 20th century’s 25 most influential business thinkers, along with business pioneers such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates. Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and many other business publications around the world.

Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School were he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.

For ten years, Hamel served as Chairman of Strategos, a company that helps its clients make innovation a way of life. With the goal of helping companies drive “innovation to the core,” Strategos has trained tens of thousands of individuals around the world in the art of business innovation. Under Hamel’s leadership, Strategos has developed powerful IT tools to support everywhere, all-the-time innovation in large companies. In every case, Strategos helps its clients to reinvent their core management processes—from budgeting to executive development—in ways that support continual, rule-breaking innovation.

The Strategos approach to innovation has been covered in major business magazines around the world. One of Strategos’ recent projects is the subject of a new series of Harvard Business School case studies.
As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for companies as diverse as General Electric, Nokia, Nestle, Shell, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution” and “corporate resilience” have changed the practice of management in companies around the world.

As one of the world’s most sought after management speakers, Hamel has addressed the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 Global Summit and many other similarly prestigious gatherings. Hamel has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.

As the director of the Woodside Institute, a non-profit research foundation based in Northern California, Hamel is currently helping companies to master the art of management innovation. At present, Hamel is leading an effort at the London Business School to build the world’s first “Management Innovation Lab.” The Lab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and world renowned management scholars work together to co-create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. The goal: radically accelerate the evolution of management knowledge and practice.