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AIB Fellow - Pankaj Ghemawat
Pankaj
Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business
School and the Jaime and Josefina Chua
Tiampo Professor of Business Administration (on leave) at the Harvard Business
School. Professor Ghemawat earned his A.B. degree in
Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his
Ph.D in Business Economics from Harvard
University. He then worked as a consultant at McKinsey
& Company in London
before joining the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty in 1983. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest full
professor in HBS’s history. He joined
the IESE faculty in 2006.
Professor
Ghemawat’s current teaching and research focus on globalization and
strategy. He has developed a 30-session MBA
course on the topic, chairs focused programs at IESE and at HBS on Getting Global Strategy Right, and has
written numerous articles on globalization.
Of his two most recent articles on this topic, “Regional Strategies for
Global Leadership” received the McKinsey Award for the best article published
in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in
2005 and “Global Integration ≠ Global Concentration” (with Fariborz Ghadar) was
published as the lead article in Industrial
and Corporate Change in August 2006. His next publication on this topic, “Managing
Differences: The Central Challenge of Global Strategy,” is forthcoming as the
lead article in the March 2007 issue of HBR. He has also finished a book titled
Redefining Global Strategy
that will be published by Harvard Business School Press in September 2007. Professor Ghemawat’s other books include Commitment, Games Businesses Play and Strategy
and the Business Landscape. In
addition, he is one of HBS’s 10 best-selling case writers, serves as the
Departmental Editor for Strategy at Management
Science, holds editorial
positions with half-a-dozen other journals and is a director of the Tata
America International Corporation.
Last Updated: April 2007
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