Pankaj Ghemawat

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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 as a full professor.  Ghemawat was also the youngest "guru" included in The Guide to the Greatest Management Thinkers of All Time published by The Economist. Professor Ghemawat helps companies and business schools better understand and address international opportunities and challenges.

Pankaj 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."

Professor Ghemawat's book, World 3.0, has described by Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization 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."
Pankaj Ghemawat has also written more than 100 research articles and case studies, is one of the world's best-selling authors of teaching cases, and is a fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Strategic Management Society.

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Pankaj Ghemawat served on the taskforce appointed by the AACSB, the leading accreditation body for business schools, on the globalization of management education, and authored the report's recommendations about what and how to teach students about globalization.

Other recent honors include the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review and the Irwin Educator of the Year award from the Business Policy and Strategy division of the Academy of Management.