First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Deepa Prahalad for the Harvard Business Review blog “The Conversation” series. The Conversation is our home for inspired insights and observations from a wide array of contributors.” To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to [.].

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Prahalad Review Blog Article 75

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As hard as it may be, you have to let him or her begin to make a bigger and bigger difference in developing strategy. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. Your successor is going to manage your organization in the future - not you. Life is good.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. This can be part of your strategy. 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.

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Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Top-rated Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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. There are two views on strategy. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

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. The bar for usability is very high in developed markets because of an abundance of choice and competition. The same is increasingly true in developed economies. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Prahalad used to recommend that a company's strategy should be developed by its thirty-year-old rookies instead of its veterans: The new guard will be more vested in the future than the past. And when that happens, we hesitate to venture into new territory, to learn new skills, to develop new relationships.

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Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14

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.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Almost all of the successful “low price, high profit” companies stick to an EDLP, or “every day low price,” strategy rather than one that relies on frequent temporary promotions. At the same time, Honda was developing a much simpler and extremely inexpensive model called the Wave. They never mix their messages.

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Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

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

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?"

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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?"

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In this new era of tech, one strategy for smaller ecosystems to increase their footprint is to focus on specific sub-sectors in either verticals or deep tech areas where they have existing strengths,” the authors explain. Practical solutions.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

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. I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success.

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Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. GE, by creating independent local development teams, is adding to the diversity of ideas and the opportunity to recombine them, and hence the likelihood of having innovations to bring to market more often. As the late C.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13