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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

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. But this approach seldom works.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. Educate your team. Are you recycling as much as possible?

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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions. Speeding the recovery.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. 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.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. Wellness checkups? Better working conditions? Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all.

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