John Hagel III

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John Hagel III is an American management consultant and author.

In 2007, Hagel founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley–based research center.^{[citation needed]} The Center for the Edge now has offices in Amsterdam and Melbourne.^{[citation needed]}

Hagel is also involved with several other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he currently serves as co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also on the Board of Trustees for the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts research on complex adaptive systems,^[1] and for the Independent Institute.^[2] Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute.^[3]

Hagel is credited with inventing the term "infomediary" in his book, NetWorth, co-authored with Marc Singer, and published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

Hagel has been published in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC and BBC. The Harvard Business Review has awarded Hagel two prizes for Best Article, and has been called an industry thought leader by the World Economic Forum and Business Week. Hagel also blogs at Edge Perspectives, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy.^[4]

• Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge^[5] (present)
• Santa Fe Institute^[6] – Board of Trustees
• Aspen Institute^[7]
• The Independent Institute^[8] – Board of Directors
• Advisory board member of open innovation vendor Innovation Exchange
• Fellow, World Economic Forum^[9]

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• MBA - Harvard Business School – 1978
• JD - Harvard Law School – 1978
• B.Phil. - Oxford University – 1974
• BA - Wesleyan University – 1972

• John Hagel III, John Seely Brown: Lang Davison, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things In Motion, Basic Books 2010. ISBN 978-0-465-01935-9.
• John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, How World Of Warcraft Promotes Innovation; in: Willms Buhse/Ulrike Reinhard: Wenn Anzugträger auf Kapuzenpullis treffen (When Suits meet Hoodies), whois-Verlag 2009. ISBN 978-3-934013-98-8.
• John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization, Harvard Business Review Press 2005. ISBN 978-1-59139-720-5.
• John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Out of The Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow Through Web Services, Harvard Business Press 2002. ISBN 978-1-57851-680-3.
• John Hagel III, Marc Singer, Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules, Harvard Business Review Press 1999. ISBN 978-0-87584-889-1.
• John Hagel III, Arthur G. Armstrong, Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities, Harvard Business Review Press 1997. ISBN 978-0-87584-759-7.
• John Hagel III, Assessing the Criminal, Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process, Ballinger Publishing 1977. ISBN 978-0-88410-785-9.
• John Hagel III, Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities, Praeger 1976.

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