Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

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. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

Goal 12

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Managers of successful firms tend to become complacent and even arrogant, assuming that past performance will continue and that the formulas that worked previously will work in the future.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 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. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? Incidentally, this holds true even for a quasi-Web 2.0

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

This type of of segmentation is more important than ever as technologically empowered customers have more choice and the ability to craft their own solutions. 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. Customers Marketing'

Ramaswamy 10

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 10

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. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We have already seen tremendous progress in a wide range of digital and technology products during the crisis, and these will continue to play a fundamental role in the recovery. “The best estimates we have suggest that for every high-technology job, five other jobs are created in the economy,” The Startup Genome report says.

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 Long-term Short-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 Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

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. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 14

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 14