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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation' His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […].

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

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.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

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. Can you reduce business and commuter travel, or make it more efficient? Encourage your people to get engaged with what C.K.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

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Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Harvard Business Review

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment. In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language. For each segment, there may be only three or four jobs to be done that are crucial.