C.K. Prahalad
Indian-American business strategist and professor at the University of Michigan. Co-author of 'The Core Competence of the Corporation' and author of 'The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid'. Reframed strategy as the architecture of capability and reach.
C.K. Prahalad
Ask C.K. Prahalad about strategy, core competence, and the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. Sit with the strategist who saw four billion customers.
Indian-American business strategist and professor at the University of Michigan. Co-author of 'The Core Competence of the Corporation' and author of 'The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid'. Reframed strategy as the architecture of capability and reach.
- Born
- 1941
- Died
- 2010
- Birthplace
- Coimbatore, Madras Presidency
- Nationality
- India, United States
What C.K. Prahalad can help you think about
C.K. Prahalad is a fitting guide when your questions touch philosophers and business leaders. Bring whatever you're untangling — a decision you're weighing, a doubt you're sitting with, a problem that won't loosen — and let the conversation move from there.
The answers draw on the shape of C.K. Prahalad's thinking across work like Competing for the Future, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, and Core competence theory — translated into a voice you can actually talk back to.
Ask plainly. Push back. Follow a thread until it goes somewhere. This isn't a lookup — it's a conversation with a mentor who's already done the thinking you're about to do.
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