C.K. Prahalad News & Articles
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The Prahalad Interview: Brazil’s ValorThe Brazilian economic journal Valor recently interviewed University of Michigan professor and The Next Practice founder C.K. Prahalad about business strategies for the base of the pyramid. The full interview, translated from the Portugese, follows below. (more…) Business ProphetBy Pete Engardio, JANUARY 23, 2006 Take a cab ride through Bombay, and these are the scenes that will likely strike you first: raggedly dressed homeless families sprawled on blankets amid shacks. Traffic hopelessly clogged with every manner of soot-belching vehicle and wooden cart. Gaunt hawkers and beggars tapping on your window at red lights. For foreign visitors, such jarring images of poverty and desperation are hard to shake. Smart Strategies: Putting Ideas To WorkApril 2004 FastCompany Page 63 By: Alison Overholt Illustrations by: Grady Mcferrin In the early 1980s, Michael Porter gave us Competitive Strategy and told us what fueled the engines of corporate growth. A decade later, C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel told us to mind our “core competencies.” In the years since, however, there hasn’t been a whole lot of shaking going on in the world of corporate strategy. As one consultant put it, “There have been several great eras in strategy. This is not one of them.” (more…) Recent Articles
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