Pankaj Ghemawat Pankaj Ghemawat disagrees that the world is flat, instead asserts that “the complex world of semiglobalization offers a far richer palette of business opportunities than a simple “borderless” world of uniformity and ubiquity.” Here, he offers an antidote by addressing what still matters: distance and difference.

About the author:
Pankaj Ghemawat is the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona and the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration (on leave) at the Harvard Business School. He has also been a consultant with McKinsey & Company. In 1991, at age 23, he was appointed the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Business School. He has written for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and one of his bestselling Harvard Business Review articles won the McKinsey Award for the best article published in 2005.