Pankaj Ghemawat

Biography

Pankaj Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School. Between 1983 and 2008, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where, in 1991, he became the youngest person in the school's history to be appointed a full professor. Ghemawat was also the youngest "guru" included in the guide to the greatest management thinkers of all time published in 2008 by The Economist. Ghemawat's books include "Commitment, Games Businesses Play, Strategy and the Business Landscape and Redefining Global Strategy". IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano described the latter book as "an important strategic guidebook for leaders of the 21st century globally integrated enterprise...[with an] analytic framework is both visionary and pragmatic - aware of the broader historic trajectories of globalization, but grounded in the real kinds of decisions business leaders have to make." In May 2011 "World 3.0" was published by Harvard Business Review Press. Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO, has described it as "offering recommendations that should inspire all global stakeholders in times of major global challenges" and Peter Löscher, CEO of Siemens, as "the right book at the right time... [about] ways to make the global economy more stable - and more sustainable." And according to The Economist, "World 3.0.should be read by anyone who wants to understand the most important economic development of our time." "World 3.0" won the 50 Thinkers Book Award for the best business book published in 2010-2011, the Axiom Business Book Gold Award in the International Business/Globalization category and the IESE Alumni Research Excellence Award.

Research Interest

* Globalization and Strategy * Emerging markets * Game theory and Strategy