Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

 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.

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

CEOs forget that if the intent of these plans isn't aligned with the communication, people may be impressed, but deep down inside, they will not believe in those plans or act on them. Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. Two decades ago, the late C.K.

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Power McTaggart Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Others like Kodak and Nokia are re-strategizing in order to remain relevant in a dynamic global market. The latter just signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to develop new mobile solutions, after the new CEO acknowledged that the phone maker has been left behind by its competitors.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Gary Wendt, CEO of GE Capital during its heyday, once said to me that the secret of his continuing success was the fear that his business could fall off a cliff at any moment. How are you preparing yourself today to compete in tomorrow's global economy? Without that fear, the cliff often appears more suddenly. That's why the late C.K.

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Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The Wave, a motorbike manufactured by Honda for the Vietnamese market, provides clear, affirmative proof that a huge, global manufacturing company can win in the ultra-low-price segment against local competitors.

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Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Yes, work still needs to be done to better align CEO compensation with long-term value creation, but that work is already well underway. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. See the rest of the series here.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Yes, work still needs to be done to better align CEO compensation with long-term value creation, but that work is already well underway. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. See the rest of the series here.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform. Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform. Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

What follows are seven ways business leaders can better connect and collaborate with their design partners as these groups work together more closely and strategically: • Get Empathetic: Increasingly, businesses are developing products and services that need to connect with global consumers. So, do the research necessary.

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Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 14