Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. How Ethical Are You?

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion.

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. By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

The skills and traits to pull that off — such as cost-consciousness, relentless efficiency, and customer-driven design — must be anchored in the company and its culture from the very beginning. It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable.

Price 8

Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

In the work underlying Beyond Performance , we found a technique we call 'laddering' that even the most hard-nosed business operators can feel comfortable with; the reason is that it closely resembles the "five whys" approach lean organizations use to get to the root causes of performance problems. Because it overheated," comes the reply.

Banking 15

Banking Prahalad Hamel Emotional Intelligence 15