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Gary Hamel
American management theorist (b. 1954), Prahalad's principal collaborator across two decades, whose co-authored work on core competence, strategic intent, and competing for the future reshaped strategic management in the 1990s.
Gary Hamel is the Harvard Business School-trained management thinker whose collaboration with C. K. Prahalad produced three of the most influential strategy articles of the late twentieth century — Strategic Intent (1989), The Core Competence of the Corporation (1990), and Strategy as Stretch and Leverage (1993) — and the 1994 book Competing for the Future. The Prahalad-Hamel partnership defined a generation of corporate strategy by shifting the analytical focus from industry structure and market position to the internal capabilities through which organizations compete.
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Hamel's independent work extends the partnership's themes into management innovation and organizational design. His 2007 book The Future of Management argued that the most consequential competitive advantages of the twenty-first century would come from innovations in how organizations were managed, not from innovations in what they produced. His Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) platform operationalized this argument by convening practitioners who were experimenting with post-bureaucratic organizational forms.
The Prahalad-Hamel intellectual partnership combined