Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. ,

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Toyota's counterintuitive realization about what would motivate buyers came from understanding cultural, behavioral, economic, and technologic trends, and this insight drove development choices as well as marketing. I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. Forward-looking.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Prahalad said that the ongoing growth in China, India, and other emerging economies means that every year millions of consumers acquire enough purchasing power to afford mass-produced products for the first time, albeit at ultra-low prices. In his book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , the late C.

Price 8

Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

Mission Statement 15

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. There is a tendency in developing directional documents to start saying, "Should we use this word or that word?"

Mission Statement 15

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."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

At the same time, design consultancies are increasingly looked at to spearhead the development process — from consumer research to design to prototyping, manufacturing and packaging. Remember, the goal in collaborative development is participation and understanding, which differences in language and culture only complicate.

Prahalad 14

Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

There is no more powerful question in a U.S. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. Social media spending?

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12