Gary Hamel, a graduate of Andrews University and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is the CEO 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 (Ph.D. 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 poor 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”

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, Harvard Business School Press (1997)
• Leading the Revolution, Harvard Business School Press (2000)
• The Quest for Resilience, Harvard Business Review (2003)
• The Future of Management, Harvard Business School Press (2007)

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