Thinkers50 Hall of Fame: Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel has been inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2022. Here we share more about Gary Hamel’s work.

Gary Hamel has been on the faculty of London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Lab. He has written 20 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His most recent bestsellers are Humanocracy and The Future of Management. In these volumes, Hamel presents an impassioned plea for reinventing management and lays out a practical blueprint for building organizations that are “fit for the future.”

In his influential early work he collaborated with CK Prahalad. Their book, Competing for the Future was one of the most important books of the 1990s. Fortune describes Hamel as “the world’s leading expert on business strategy,” and the Financial Times calls him a “management innovator without peer.” His groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation” have changed the language and practice of management in organizations around the globe.

Gary Hamel’s bio