C.K. Prahalad Quotes

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

He was the co-author of "Core Competence of the Corporation" and "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" , about the business opportunity in serving the Bottom of the Pyramid.

On 16 April 2010, Prahalad died at the age of 68 of a previously undiagnosed lung illness in San Diego, California. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. August 1941 – 16. April 2010
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“The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.”

C.K. Prahlad, cited in: Bibek Debroy, ‎Amir Ullah Khan (2004), Integrating the Rural Poor Into Markets. p. 17

“Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.”

C. K. Prahalad, cited in: Simone P. Joyaux (2011), Strategic Fund Development, p. 7

“BoP consumer problems cannot be solved with old technologies.”

Source: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, 2009, p. 26

“Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.”

C. K. Prahalad, cited in: Don Soderquist (2005), The Wal-Mart Way, p. 178

“I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.”

Source: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, 2009, p. 138

C.K. Prahalad Quotes

“If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.”

C.K. Prahlad in: Art Kleiner, " The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00043?gko=bcd57," in: Strategy & Business, August 9, 2010.

“Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.”

C.K. Prahalad in a column Harvard Business Review, April 2010.

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