Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton.

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Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. As Hamel and Prahalad point out, a snapshot by itself yields little information about "whether the driver is out for a quiet Sunday drive or warming up for the Grand Prix.". Two decades ago, the late C.K.

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Power McTaggart Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

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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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

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. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

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Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For example, GE has gone from despoiling the Hudson River to jumpstarting the electric car industry through its commitment to purchase tens of thousands of zero emission vehicles. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. Encourage your people to get engaged with what C.K.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Apple, for example, has committed to specific design values and an integrated architecture. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired. Nobody has to tell a pacemaker cell in the heart what it is supposed to do. However, in organizations it is incumbent on leaders to set direction.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Apple, for example, has committed to specific design values and an integrated architecture. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired. Nobody has to tell a pacemaker cell in the heart what it is supposed to do. However, in organizations it is incumbent on leaders to set direction.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

To forestall unrest, Jordan's King Abdullah II removed his cabinet , and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has committed to leave at the end of his term. Prahalad noted several years ago, multinationals can both serve a key market and make profits by serving the "bottom of the pyramid."

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13