Remembering Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad
Inviting Nominations for C. K. Prahalad Prashasti for Corporate and Social Strategy 2022
Inviting Nominations for C. K. Prahalad Prashasti for Corporate and Social Strategy 2022 for creating an Aatmnirbhar Bharat to be presented on his 13th Punyatithi on the 16th of April 2010 in a gala DigiTAL ceremony. The detailed nomination note by the Head of the Institution can be forwarded to editor@rethinkindia.in along with the contact details of the nominee can be sent latest by April 13th, 2022 midnight. For any query, please do ping Dr. Surbhi at 9910050597 (whatsapp/call)
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) was a corporate and social strategist, educator, and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
He co-authored "Core Competence of the Corporation" with Gary Hamel; and "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" with Stuart L. Hart, about the business opportunities 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.
Prahalad was born in Madhwa brahmin family at Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) in 1941. His father was a Tamil scholar and judge in Madras (now Chennai). At 19, he had finished his BSc degree in physics from Loyola College, Chennai, part of the University of Madras, and joined Union Carbide, where he worked for four years. Four years later he did postgraduate work in management at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
At Harvard Business School, Prahalad wrote a doctoral thesis on multinational management in two and a half years, graduating with a DBA degree in 1975. After graduating from Harvard, Prahalad returned to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to serve as a professor before returning to the US again in 1977. He returned to the United States in 1977, with an appointment to the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business Administration. He eventually became a tenured full professor, earning the university's highest distinction, Distinguished University Professor, in 2005.