Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies.

Prahalad 28

Prahalad Products Productivity Marketing 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control.

Products 50

Products Productivity Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

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 17

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. , Educate your team.

Prahalad 16

Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A fellow business leader complained the other day that although he had repeatedly sought feedback, his team had never told him what they really thought about his management style. Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. Two decades ago, the late C.K.

Power 15

Power McTaggart Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success. Increase profitability? Improve lives?

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There is a danger that even after dealing with the crisis, managers will continue to give short shrift to their nonmarket and other fundamental corporate choices. Managers often think about strategy in narrow terms, engaging consultants to advise on such questions as divisional structures and the restructuring of reporting lines.

Strategy 15

Strategy Politics Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. A provocative—possibly apocryphal—story has the late C.K. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." In others, marketers were still adamant that segmentation was the only way to go, but couldn''t explain its benefits.

Ramaswamy 10

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. In a study by Dr. Rajendra S. and What are our Core Competencies?

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Apple and Google, of course, have been successful across a variety of market contexts. Managing people' Loose connections. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Organization 9

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Apple and Google, of course, have been successful across a variety of market contexts. Managing people' Loose connections. Gary Hamel and C.K.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The competitiveness of emerging markets was underlined by the recent World Competitiveness Rankings , from IMD Business School, which saw smaller economies dominate the rankings. Without it, I worry about a bleak picture for the recovery and follow-on growth.”. Globally competitive. A changing landscape.

Innovation 84

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 84

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Architecture.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Architecture.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself.

ROE 14

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 14