Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 19, 2013

Previous winners of the Top Management Thinker Award have included Peter Drucker (2001 & 2003), Michael Porter (2005), CK Prahalad (2007 & 2009), and Clayton Christensen (2011). It is now the premier global ranking of management thinkers.

Prahalad 89

Prahalad Porter Christensen Drucker 89

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In 2005, IBM sold its PC division to its former competitor, Lenovo. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's HBR classic Core Competence of the Corporation made popular the notion that knowing and mastering core business factors can be leveraged across products and markets. But it arrived late.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15