Redefining global strategy by pankaj ghemawat biography

Pankaj Ghemawat is the Global Professor of Management and Strategy and Director of the Center for the Globalization of Education and Management at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and 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 that 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."

Ghemawat's new book, World 3.0, was published in May 2011 by Harvard Business Review Press. According to an early review in 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.

Pankaj Ghemawat also developed the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014 a comprehensive analysis of globalization and the rise of emerging markets.

Ghemawat has written more than 100 research articles and case studies, is one of the world's best-selling authors of teaching cases and fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society. Ot

Indian-American economist (born 1959)

Pankaj Ghemawat (born 30 September 1959) is an Indian-American economist, professor, global strategist, speaker and author known for his work in the study of globalization. He created the DHL Global Connectedness Index and the CAGE Distance Framework.

He is the global professor of management and strategy and director of the Center for the Globalization of Education and Management at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School. Ghemawat previously served on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he was the youngest person ever appointed a full professorship.

Early life and education

Born in India, Ghemawat spent parts of his childhood in India and in Indiana, where the family lived while his father pursued a PhD at Purdue University.Sanjay Ghemawat is his younger brother.

Ghemawat received his bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and his Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University. Entering Harvard College at the age of 16, he was accepted to Harvard Business School's Ph.D. in Business Economics program at 19, graduating three years later.

After a two-year stint at McKinsey & Company in London, he spent 25 years on the full-time faculty at Harvard Business School. Since 2006, Ghemawat has been the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona. In 2013, he was appointed as distinguished visiting professor of global management at Stern School of Business, New York University.

Career and research

Ghemawat has devoted much of his career to studying globalization and its effects on national economies. In 2011 he introduced the DHL Global Connectedness Index, which emphasizes analysis of hard data to measure the global connectedn

Pankaj Ghemawat is the Global Professor of Management and Strategy and Director of the Centre for the Globalisation of Education and Management at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School.

Between 1983-2008 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, Redefining Global Strategy, World 3.0, and The Laws of Globalisation. According to The Economist, “World 3.0 should be read by anyone who wants to understand the most important economic development of our time.” The Laws of Globalisation provides a rigorous data-driven discussion of globalisation at the world, country, industry and firm levels. Ghemawat’s latest book, The New Global Road Map: Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times explains the key trends affecting global business today and how globalisation levels around the world are changing. He also addresses business responses to the present globalisation environment in his July-August 2017 Harvard Business Review cover story, Globalisation in the Age of Trump.

Ghemawat is also the lead author of the DHL Global Connectedness Index, a comprehensive analysis of the state of globalisation across 140 countries. This series of reports, now on its fourth edition, covers the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows from 2005 to 2015.

Ghemawat helps companies and business schools better understand and address international opportunities and challenges. He is the Chairman of the Foundation for Practice and Research in Strategic Management (PRISM).