“If your aspirations and convictions are not greater than your resources or desire for self-preservation, you are not an entrepreneur, or someone who can contribute to changing the world.” (adapted from his life’s convictions)
Prahalad was ranked the world’s leading business thinker by the Thinkers50 list in 2007 and 2009 and was later inducted into its Hall of Fame.
Harvard, University of Michigan, McKinsey Awards.
With Gary Hamel, he developed the concept of “core competencies.”
In his book “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” C.K. advanced the idea that companies can profitably serve the world’s poorest populations and contribute to poverty reduction (“eradicating poverty through profits”).
“If your aspirations and convictions are not greater than your resources or desire for self-preservation… you will never be someone who can contribute to changing the world.”
