Tuesday, April 27, 2010

C.K. Prahalad

On April 16th we lost one of the great management thinkers - C.K. Prahalad.
A huge loss for the University of Michigan and the whole world!

C.K. is widely considered the most creative management thinker of his generation. He fundamentally changed how we think about business strategy ("Core Competence"), economic development ("Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid") and innovation ("Co-creation").

I did not have the honor to attend lectures with him, but I was told by second year students and alumni that C.K. fundamentally changed the way they think about business and the world.

The world of management theory has more than its fair share of charlatans, but C.K. Prahalad was the genuine article.
- The Economist

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