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. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

Goal 8

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. So if you want your company to "do good" in a way that also makes it more profitable, the process might start with you.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 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."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

They operate with extreme cost and process efficiency, which enables them to enjoy good margins and profits even while charging low prices. At the same time, Honda was developing a much simpler and extremely inexpensive model called the Wave. They have a high-growth, high-revenue focus. They are extremely efficient.

Price 8

Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8