Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. If they can't replicate the thinking driving your innovations, they'll be doomed to "me too" status.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Strategy gets set at the top. Power trickles down. Architecture.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Strategy gets set at the top. Power trickles down. Architecture.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened. The number of people affected by an innovation.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12