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Harold "Hal" L. Sirkin (born 1959) is an American business consultant and author, who often writes about trends in innovation and global business competition.

Career

Harold Sirkin is a senior partner in the Chicago office of the Boston Consulting Group, where he serves as global leader of the firm's Operations practice. He has co-authored several Boston Consulting Group reports including Capturing Global Advantage (2004),[1] Globalizing R&D: Knocking Down the Barriers (2005),[2] Globalizing R&D: Building a Pathway to Profits (2005),[3] The New Global Challengers (2006),[4] and The 2008 Top 100 New Global Challengers (2007).[5]

Sirkin writes a regular column entitled "Globality" for BusinessWeek.com [6] and contributes to The New York Times Syndicate's "Global Business Perspectives column".[7] He is the co-author of two books: Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation,[8] which advises companies to adopt a systematic approach to innovation, and Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything,[9] which explores strategies for economic competition under globality, the end state of globalization. Payback was named one of the "Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006" by BusinessWeek magazine.[10] Globality was picked by The Economist as one of the best business books of 2008. [11] Sirkin has also contributed to Time and the Harvard Business Review.

He graduated suma cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 with a B.S. in Economics, and from the University of Chicago in 1981 with an M.B.A. He is also a CPA.[12]

Bibliography

Books

Articles

  • Sirkin, Harold and George Stalk. "Fix the Process, Not the Problem" Harvard Business Review July 1990 (subscription required for full text)
  • Sirkin, Harold and James P. Andrew. "Innovating for Cash" Harvard Business Review September 2003 (subscription required for full text)
  • Sirkin, Harold L., Perry Keenan and Alan Jackson. "The Hard Side of Change Management" Harvard Business Review October 2005 (subscription required for full text)
  • Sirkin, Harold L. (October 16, 2008), "In the New World Disorder, Loads of Rivals for America", Time{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  • Harold L. Sirkin and James W. Hemerling (January 15, 2009). "Economy needs more than stimulus". Cleveland Plain Dealer.
  • BusinessWeek.com Articles by Harold L. Sirkin
  • Sirkin, Harold L. (April 2009), "Who Will Win the World's Newest Consumers", Industry Today {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  • Sirkin, Harold L. (May 18, 2009), "Commodities' Coming Rebound", Barron's {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

See also

References

  1. ^ Bhattacharya, Arindam (2004-04-01). Capturing Global Advantage (PDF). Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Bhattacharya, Arindam (2005-05-01). Globalizing R&D: Knocking Down the Barriers (PDF). Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Bhattacharya, Arindam (2005-05-01). Globalizing R&D: Building a Pathway to Profits (PDF). Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Aguiar, Marcos (2006-05-01). The New Global Challengers (PDF). Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Aguiar, Marcos (2007-12-01). The 2008 Top 100 New Global Challengers (PDF). Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "BusinessWeek.com: Articles by Harold L. Sirkin". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ Sirkin, Harold L. (2007). "Hot Companies Ready to Challenge". Hong Kong Business Online via New York Times Syndicate. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  8. ^ Sirkin, Harold L. (2007-01-09). Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press. p. 228. ISBN 1422103137. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Sirkin, Harold L. (2008-06-11). Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything. New York, New York: Business Plus. p. 304. ISBN 0446178292. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "Innovation and Design Books 2006". BusinessWeek. 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2008-10-22. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  11. ^ >"Books of the year: Pick of the pile". The Economist. 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2009-06-29. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ Boston Consulting Group Globality Website, "About the Authors"

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