Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (Tamil: கோயம்புத்தூர் கிருஷ்ணராவ் ப்ரஹலாத்) (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan.
He is famous as the co-author of the concepts of Core competency - with Gary Hamel - and BoP - Bottom of the Pyramid with Stuart L. Hart.
Prahalad was the ninth of eleven children b...
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Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (Tamil: கோயம்புத்தூர் கிருஷ்ணராவ் ப்ரஹலாத்) (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan.
He is famous as the co-author of the concepts of Core competency - with Gary Hamel - and BoP - Bottom of the Pyramid with Stuart L. Hart.
Prahalad was the ninth of eleven children born in 1941 in to a Kannada speaking family in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. His father was a well-known Sanskrit scholar and judge in Chennai. At 19, he joined Union Carbide, he was recruited by the manager of the local Union Carbide battery plant after completing his B.Sc degree in Physics from Loyola College, Chennai, part of the University of Madras. He worked there for four years. Prahalad called his Union Carbide experience a major inflection point in his life. Four years later, he did his post graduate work in management at the Indian...
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