Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Challenge yourself to recognize that the behavior that you feel is most important for the company may really be the behavior that is most important for you. As hard as it may be, you have to let him or her begin to make a bigger and bigger difference in developing strategy. As hard as it may be, try to think like an objective outsider.

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Prahalad Objective Survey Participative 127

Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 18, 2011

Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can't all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our own careers. He is the founder of GMR Infrastructure, which is now a large infrastructure company in India. This is one of the reasons that he is so successful."

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Ulrich Hersey Prahalad Mission Statement 134

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. d.light’s deeply holistic analysis of the problems faced by people in poverty led to developing inexpensive, durable solar-powered LED lanterns (sold on time payments) to replace kerosene, open fires—or darkness. Two examples: Let There Be Light.

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Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

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Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. Healthcare Leaders.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

My latest HBR article ( "The New Corporate Garage" ) details examples of large companies that have had massive impact by intertwining difficult-to-replicate assets and entrepreneurial behaviors. That means the fundamental question you have to ask is, What makes your company special? This isn't an academic issue.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

My latest HBR article ( "The New Corporate Garage" ) details examples of large companies that have had massive impact by intertwining difficult-to-replicate assets and entrepreneurial behaviors. That means the fundamental question you have to ask is, What makes your company special? This isn't an academic issue.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton. But this approach seldom works.

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Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

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.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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Prahalad Business Model Early Adopters Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. In the early 1970s, for instance, an upstart company called Canon set out a bold intent: "Beat Xerox." Gary Hamel and C.K. There are two views on strategy.

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Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Eastman Kodak Company was an iconic industry leader. The latter just signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to develop new mobile solutions, after the new CEO acknowledged that the phone maker has been left behind by its competitors. They develop chipsets and license to manufacturers who then produce and sell.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

We've recently witnessed the fall from grace of a number of premier, blue chip companies. Once-paragons of corporate success, firms like Johnson & Johnson , Toyota , and Goldman Sachs have all endured embarrassing public mishaps, leaving us questioning: How could these once best-in-class companies stumble so badly ?

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Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

However over the past few years many companies have transformed themselves from bad guys into champions of social change and ecological consciousness. The transformation that GE, Nike, and other leading companies have made goes beyond repairing tarnished images or reversing past sins. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The skills and traits to pull that off — such as cost-consciousness, relentless efficiency, and customer-driven design — must be anchored in the company and its culture from the very beginning.

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Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Too often I find that companies don't have a clear enough sense of why they do what they do. This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Prahalad's " bottom of the pyramid ," that began life as academic research. But only to assure themselves that someone will pay enough to make the development of the solution worthwhile. Today micro-packaging, for instance, is finally being taken seriously by giant multinational fast-moving-consumer-goods companies.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Here''s how the "jobs done" segmentation works: Step #1: Identify the contexts in which customers are using the company''s products. This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment. We agreed to work on a new kind of segmentation based the combinations of jobs that customers need to get done.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Below are three mission statements from three Fortune 500 companies. Try to match each company with its mission statement: How did you do? Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Below are three mission statements from three Fortune 500 companies. Try to match each company with its mission statement: How did you do? Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM A dynamic economy requires growing companies—those that increase their value-added contribution over time. That value must be measured across all stakeholders. As the late C.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12