Pankaj Ghemawat

Pankaj Ghemawat’s background

He specialises in emerging markets, sustainable competitive advantage, competitive dynamics, and strategic investment. He is also the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School and 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.

Between 1983 and 2008, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where he became the youngest person in the school’s history to be appointed a full professor (1991).

He is also the youngest “guru” included in The Economist’s guide to the greatest management thinkers of all time (2008) and is ranked among the top 20 management thinkers worldwide by Thinkers50. Other recent honours include the Booz Eminent Scholar Award of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management, 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.

Ghemawat’s most recent book is The Laws of globalization, published by Cambridge University Press in fall 2016. His previous book World 3.0 (Harvard Business Review Press) should, according to The Economist, “be read by anyone who wants to understand the most important economic development of our time.” It won the Thinkers50 award for the best business book published in 2010-2011.

Ghemawat’s pending book, The New Global Road Map: Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times, explains the key trends affecting global business today and how globalizationlevels around the world are changing.

Ghemawat is the principal author of the biennial DHL Global Connectedness Index and the Chairman of the Foundation for Practice and Research in Strategic Management (PRISM). He 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 to teach students about globalization, and how.