Harold L. Sirkin

Harold "Hal" L. Sirkin (born 1959) is an American business consultant and author, who often writes about trends in innovation and global business competition. He graduated summa 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 Professor at Kellogg School of Management and a CPA.

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), Globalizing R&D: Knocking Down the Barriers (2005), Globalizing R&D: Building a Pathway to Profits (2005), The New Global Challengers (2006), and The 2008 Top 100 New Global Challengers (2007).

Sirkin writes a regular column entitled "Globality" for BusinessWeek.com and at one time seems to have contributed to The New York Times Syndicate's "Global Business Perspectives column" but hasn't done so since at least 2007. He is the co-author of two books: Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, which advises companies to adopt a systematic approach to innovation, and Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, 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. Globality was picked by The Economist as one of the best business books of 2008. Sirkin has also contributed to Time and the Harvard Business Review.

Bibliography

Books

• Sirkin, Harold L.; Hemerling, James W.; Bhattacharya, Arindam K; with John Butman (2008). Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything. New York: Business Plus: ISBN 0-446-17829-2
• Sirkin, Harold L.; Andrew, James P.; Butman, John (2007). Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press: ISBN 1-4221-0313-7 ISBN 978-1-4221-0313-5
• Sirkin, Harold L.; Rose, Justin R.; Zinser, Michael (2012). The US Manufacturing Renaissance: How Shifting Global Economics Are Creating an American Comeback. Philadelphia,PA Knowledge at Wharton: ISBN 9781625399380

See also

• Boston Consulting Group
• Globality

External links

• Globality (Boston Consulting Group website dedicated to the book by Sirkin et al.)
• BusinessWeek. "Why Multinationals Need Chinese MBAs". January 9, 2006.
• BusinessWeek. "Being Global". July 14, 2008.
• Knowledge@Wharton. "Whether You Agree with Globality of Disagree, Don't Ignore It". August 20, 2008.
• BusinessWeek. "Global Talent Growth". September 15, 2008.
• Knowledge@Wharton. "BCG's Hal Sirkin on 'Globality' and the New Two-way Street of Global Business". September 22, 2008
• The Washington Post. "Competing With Everybody From Everywhere For Everything". November 3, 2008.
• Knowledge@Wharton. "'Globality': Why Companies Are Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything". November 20, 2008.
• The Economist. "Books of the Year". December 4, 2008.
• Hal Sirkin’s commentaries on bcg.perspectives