C.K. Prahalad News & Articles

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Davos: Stars, Snow, and Seminars
BusinessWeek - Jan 22, 2006… fun at the “celeb-ness” of Davos, Gere, Jolie, and Stone will be joining the likes of Microsoft (MSFT ) co-founder Bill Gates and CK Prahalad, University of …

2005: The marketing year that was
Deccan Herald, India - Jan 1, 2006… lexicon. Dr CK Prahalad has woken a whole nation of marketers to a possibility that lies ahead at the bottom of the pyramid. Does …

Start Your Quest For Enduring Success By Taking ‘Strategy’ Out Of …
24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - Jan 18, 2006… Influential names like Kenneth R. Andrews, H. Igor Ansoff, Peter F. Drucker, Henry Mintzberg, Michael E. Porter, and CK Prahalad, along with military strategy …

India votes for Anil Ambani in DNA poll
Daily News & Analysis, India - Dec 30, 2005… The list includes India s top thought leaders: Anand Mahindra, Azim Premji, GR Gopinath, CK Prahalad, Mukesh Ambani, Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata, Sunil Mittal …

University observes annual King Symposium
Monroe Street Journal, MI - Jan 16, 2006The 19th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium kicked off last Monday with renowned Ross professor, CK Prahalad delivering the opening speech. …

Jones Soda’s Secret
Fast Company - Jan 18, 2006… Strategy guru CK Prahalad might call that a good example of how to “cocreate unique value.” Van Stolk has a more down-to-earth, but no less profound, way to …

Product Innovation - The way to go
siliconindia.com, CA - Jan 6, 2006… Some notable thinkers like CK Prahalad, in his book Bottom of the Pyramid and John Hagel, in the McKinsey Quarterly article Disruptive management …

Marketing function needs to be re-engineered
Sify, India - Jan 19, 2006… Referring to management guru CK Prahalad’s exposition on the “bottom of the pyramid approach” he said that affordability had become a key opportunity and if …

Start Your Quest For Enduring Success By Taking ‘Strategy’ Out Of The Big Picture 
In a new article “Is Strategy a Bad Word?” published today in MIT Sloan Management Review, Cristian Mitreanu, the Founder and Lead Researcher of RedefiningStrategy.com, counter-intuitively identifies the word ’strategy’ as a potential obstacle preventing top executives from leading their businesses toward enduring success. [PRWEB Jan 18, 2006]

Davos: Stars, Snow, and Seminars 
I’ll be at the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 25 to Jan. 30, and I plan to have a lot of fun.

Product Innovation - The way to go 
Sharad Sharma predicts India will soon have its own Nasdaq listed product company. Read how and when. Lenovo in China; Samsung in Korea; Acer in Taiwan; Comverse in Israel; and Infosys in India. Whats wrong with this picture? Except for Infosys, the rest are all hi-tech product companies.

Book/CD Review 
The world’s most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the billions of poor people in the world have immense untapped buying power. For companies who learn how to serve them they represent an enormous opportunity.

Sand Hill Group Announces Powerful Line-up of Software 2006 Keynote Speakers 
SAN FRANCISCO—-Jan. 10, 2006–Sand Hill Group announced today its powerful line-up of keynote speakers at Software 2006. The prestigious group of speakers represents every niche of the software industry ecosystem, from business software heavyweights and entrepreneurial thought leadership to offshore development and venture finance.

Learning to Listen: Technology And Poor Communities 
Bernadine Dias, a Sri Lankan-born scientist based at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States, admits she “wears many hats”. Her main focus is robotics, but she also devotes a lot of time promoting innovative ways of using technology in poor communities.

D E L H I A N D N E I G H B O U R H O O D 
Demolition drive: HC for action against influential persons MCD recommends action against 94 errant engineers New Delhi, January 10 Taking suo motu cognizance of news reports of influential persons allegedly being spared in the ongoing demolition drive in the Capital, the Delhi High Court has sought a report from the Government and the MCD on steps being taken to raze illegal structures

‘Caste barrier’ limits air travel! 
The ‘caste barrier’ restricts our conception of the air traveller as a wealthy, sophisticated urbanite who needs air-conditioned airports and five-star in-flight service.

Jones Soda’s Secret 
“If you’re always trying to cater to everyone, you have no soul .” - Peter van Stolk , founder and CEO, Jones Soda

CK Prahalad: Global Indian of the year
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 10/18/2004

Placed as it is at the very end of the deliberations, you might think the process of selection for the Global Indian award would be quick and uneventful. Not so. This was actually one of the most closely contested categories in the ET Awards For Corporate Excellence and turned out to be a fitting climax to all that preceded it.
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