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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

 Equally diverse are the faculty members who weigh in on these issues, which has included CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, leaders of small non-profits, entrepreneurial junkies, the occasional student, and everything in between. I am also very impressed with the collection of guests that this resource recruits.

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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. Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy.

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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. A provocative—possibly apocryphal—story has the late C.K. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence.

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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. Fascinating Leaders from Diverse Fields. It is time now to announce the 100 Coaches. They are listed by category not by rank order. 100 COACHES.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

You need the right mix of cohesion and diversity in order to achieve both innovation and operational efficiency. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. If no one in the cast and crew had worked together before, then results were poor. However, if there were too many existing relationships, then performance suffered as well.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

You need the right mix of cohesion and diversity in order to achieve both innovation and operational efficiency. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. If no one in the cast and crew had worked together before, then results were poor. However, if there were too many existing relationships, then performance suffered as well.