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Making Your Products Accessible to Underserved Markets

Harvard Business Review

Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies.

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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

 This week I've got a unique and excellent resource from Fast Company that I would like to point you to.  Enjoy!   The Resource:    Fast Company's 30 Second MBA What it is:   30 Second MBA is a unique video resource that in some ways resembles a virtual university.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. 100 COACHES.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. In better times, companies are attracted to ideas that help them do their work more effectively. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. companies like Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook and Netflix simply don’t have. company like Apple. Because, as Web 2.0

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

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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