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.

Microfinance 13

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. Similarly, Nike went from being vilified for its unfair treatment of workers to being applauded for setting industry standards for overseas working conditions.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

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. How are you preparing yourself today to compete in tomorrow's global economy? That's why the late C.K.

Prahalad 14

Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. Who is the most influential living management thinker?

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

It is unthinkable, for instance, to imagine a social entrepreneur treating research on the health effects of tobacco use the way the tobacco industry, market analysts, and investors did in the 1960s and '70s. Prahalad's " bottom of the pyramid ," that began life as academic research. They can be more analytical.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

airline industry in the early 1990s highlights this distinction. Prahalad said that the ongoing growth in China, India, and other emerging economies means that every year millions of consumers acquire enough purchasing power to afford mass-produced products for the first time, albeit at ultra-low prices.

Price 8

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. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Globally competitive. From a global perspective, it seems that emerging ecosystems are going to play a major role in this recovery.

Innovation 87

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 87

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. But unlike websites, factories were capital intensive. As the late C.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12