Pankaj Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School and the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration (on leave) at the Harvard Business School. Professor Ghemawat earned his A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his Ph.D in Business Economics from Harvard University. He then worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in London before joining the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty in 1983. In 1991, he was appointed the youngest full professor in HBS’s history. He joined the IESE faculty in 2006.
Professor Ghemawat’s current teaching and research focus on globalization and strategy. He has
developed a 30-session MBA course on the topic, chairs focused programs at IESE and at HBS on Getting Global Strategy Right, and has written more than 50 articles and case studies on the topic. His “Regional Strategies for Global Leadership” received the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in 2005. Other recent globalization-related publications include “Managing Differences: The Central Challenge in Global Strategy,” the lead article in the March 2007 issue of HBR, “Why the World Isn’t Flat” in the March/April 2007 issue of Foreign Policy, and “Global Integration ≠ Global Concentration” (with Fariborz Ghadar), the lead article in the August 2006 issue of Industrial and Corporate Change.
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat has also finished a book titled Redefining Global Strategy that will be published by Harvard Business School Press in September 2007. Professor Ghemawat’s other books include Commitment, Games Businesses Play and Strategy and the Business Landscape. In addition, he is one of HBS’s 10 best-selling case writers, serves as the Departmental Editor for Strategy at Management Science, holds editorial positions with half-a-dozen other journals, has been elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business, and is a director of the Tata America International Corporation.
Books
Ghemawat, Pankaj. Redefining Global Strategy. Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter. Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Ariño, Africa, Pankaj Ghemawat, and Joan Enric Ricart, eds. Creating Value through Global Strategy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Introduction to the Special Issue on Strategic Dynamics, with Bruno Cassiman, Management Science 53, no. 4, Special Issue on Strategic Dynamics (2007): 529-536.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Catherine Mary Thomas. "Strategic Interaction across Countries and Multinational Agglomeration: An Application to the Cement Industry." Paper Submitted to Management Science, 2006
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Global Standardization vs. Localization: A Case Study and a Model." In The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders, edited by John A. Quelch and Rohit Deshpandé. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "The Growth Boosters." Harvard Business Review 82, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2004): 35-40.
Ricart, Joan Enric, Michael J. Enright, Pankaj Ghemawat, Stuart Hart, and Tarun Khanna. "New Frontiers in International Strategy." Journal of International Business Studies 35, no. 3 (May 2004).
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Barry Nalebuff. "TUExitUT." The RAND Journal of Economics 16, no. 2 (summer 1985): 184-194.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "TUBuilding Strategy on the Experience CurveUT." Harvard Business Review 63, no. 2 (March/April 1985): 143-149. (Reprinted in: The Economics of Business Strategy, edited by John Kay. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2003.)
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "TUCapacity Expansion in the Titanium Dioxide IndustryUT." The Journal of Industrial Economics 33, no. 2 (December 1984): 145-163. (Reprinted in The Economics of Business Strategy, edited by John Kay. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2003.)
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Africa Ariño, and Joan Enric Ricart. "Global Strategy, Location-Specificity, and Value Creation." In Creating Value through Global Strategy, edited by Africa Ariño, Pankaj Ghemawat and Joan Enric Ricart. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Global
Standardization Vs. Localization: A Case Study and a Model." In The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage across Borders, edited by Pankaj Ghemawat. Jossey-Bass, in press.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Global Standardization vs. Localization: A Case Study and a Model." In The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders, edited by John A. Quelch and Rohit Deshpandé. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Building Strategy on the Experience Curve." In The Economics of Business Strategy, edited by John Kay. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2003.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Capacity Expansion in the Titanium Dioxide Industry." In The Economics of Business Strategy, edited by John Kay. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2003.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and David J. Collis. "Mapping the Business Landscape." In The Portable MBA in Strategy. 2nd ed., edited by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall. John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Gary P. Pisano. "Building and Sustaining Success." In Strategy and the Business Landscape, edited by Pankaj Ghemawat. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc., 1999.
Ghemawat, P., and Murali Patibandla. "India's Exports Since the Reforms: Three Analytic Industry Studies." In India's Economic Reforms, edited by Jeffrey Sachs and Ashustosh Varshney. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Ghemawat, P., R. E. Kennedy, and Tarun Khanna. "Competitive Policy Shocks and Strategic Management." In Managing Strategically in an Interconnected World, edited by Michael A. Hitt, Joan E. Ricart i Costa and Robert D. Nixon. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Brandenburger, Adam, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Entry and Deterrence in the British Satellite Broadcasting Industry." In Games Businesses Play: Cases and Theory., 177-204, edited by Pankaj Ghemawat.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Ghemawat, P. "The Short Run versus the Long Run in Cross-sectional IO." In Strategic Groups, Strategic Moves, and Performance, edited by H. Daems and H. Thomas. Pergamon Press PLC, 1994.
Collis, D. J., and P. Ghemawat. "Industry Analysis." In The Portable MBA in Strategy, edited by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Ghemawat, P., and B. Nalebuff. "Excess Capacity, Efficiency, and Industrial Policy." In The Management of Excess Capacity in the European Environment, edited by C. B. Fuller. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1990.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and A. Michael Spence. "Modeling Global Competition." In Competition in Global Industries, edited by M. E. Porter, 61-79. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1986.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, Michael E. Porter, and Richard Anthony Rawlinson. "Patterns of International Coalition Activity." In Competition in Global Industries, edited by M. E. Porter, 345-365. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1986.
Papers
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Catherine Mary Thomas. "Identifying the Sources of Sustained Performance Differences: A Study of International Cement Industry." 2003 (December.)
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Strategy and Scope." 2003 (December.)
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Semiglobalization and Competitive Strategy." 2003 (March.)
Gavetti, Giovanni, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Complexity, Mental Models And International Business Strategy: An NK-Simulation Analysis." 2003 (June.)
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Rajiv Mallick. "The Industry-Level Structure of International Trade Networks: A Gravity-Based Approach." 2003 (February.)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Linux vs. Windows: Modeling Competition Between Open-Source and Closed Software." Working Paper, 2003.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Robert E. Kennedy. "Competitive Shocks and Industrial Structure: The Case of Polish Manufacturing." Harvard Business School Working Paper Series, No. 99-089, 1999.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Tarun Khanna. "The Nature of Diversified Business Groups: A Research Design and Two Case Studies." Harvard Business School Working Paper Series, No. 97-043, 1996.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Robert E. Kennedy. "Competitive Shock Therapy and Industrial Structure." Harvard Business School Working Paper Series, No. 96-073, 1996.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Louis T Wells Jr. "The Generation of Industrial Technology by the Less Developed Countries." Council on Science and Technology, 1980. Mimeo.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Louis T Wells Jr. "Transfer of Industrial Technology Among the Developing Countries." Council on Science and Technology, 1980. Mimeo.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont in Titanium Dioxide (A), (B1), and (B6), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 387-129.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont in Titanium Dioxide (A), (B1), and (B6),Addendum on Cost Analysis, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 387-130.
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-112.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Selected Exhibits from Lamoiyan Corporation of the Philippines (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 705-803.
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Timothy J. Keohane. "TUSTAR TV in 1993.UT" Harvard Business School Case 701-012.
