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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

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.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Then banking regulations were imposed. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. GE, by creating independent local development teams, is adding to the diversity of ideas and the opportunity to recombine them, and hence the likelihood of having innovations to bring to market more often.

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