IESE Business School

Pankaj Ghemawat Professor of Strategic Management Ph.D. in Business Economics, Harvard University A.B. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard College E-mail: PGhemawat@iese.edu Link: Pankaj Ghemawat personal webpage

Much of Ghemawat's recent work focuses on globalization and global strategy. His book, Redefining Global Strategy, was published by HBS Press in 2007, to enormous acclaim. In the words of Sam Palmisano, Chairman and CEO of IBM,

Pankaj Ghemawat has created an important strategic guidebook for leaders of the 21st century globally integrated enterprise. His 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?[it] will help CEOs and leaders of institutions make smarter decisions on one of the most important challenges we all face."

Ghemawat's other recent globalization-related publications include "Regional Strategies for Global Leadership," which won the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in 2005, "Global Integration ? Global Concentration" (with Fariborz Ghadar), the lead article in August 2006 in Industrial and Corporate Change, "Managing Differences: The Central Challenge in Global Strategy," the lead article in March 2007 in HBR, and "Why the World Isn't Flat" in Foreign Policy in March/April 2007. Forthcoming globalization-related articles include one with Thomas Hout on Indian and Chinese multinationals in HBR, and another with Catherine Thomas on multimarket competitive dynamics in Management Science.

Ghemawat is also engaged in a stream of work on the globalization of business education, with initiatives that include a casebook on global strategy with Jordan Siegel to be published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press, broader efforts at curricular analysis and development that are summarized in his 2008 article in the Journal of Management Development, "The Globalization of Business Education," and membership of an AACSB taskforce focused on the topic that will issue its report in spring 2009.

Ghemawat's other books include Commitment, Games Businesses Play and Strategy and the Business Landscape. He also serves as editor for Strategy at Management Science. He was elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2007, and in 2008, has received the IESE-Fundacion BBVA Economics for Management Prize and been named the Educator of the Year by the BPS Division of the Academy of Management. For more information, visit www.ghemawat.org.

Areas of interest

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