The renowned business professor and management speaker CK Prahalad has died at the age of 68, after a short illness. He was one of our mosr sought-after speakers on strategy.
He was the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School. He was also a prolific author of books and articles, including "The Core Competence of the Corporation," co-authored with Gary Hamel (1990), and "Strategic Intent," also co-authored with Gary Hamel (1989); "Weak Signals vs. Strong Paradigms," published in the Journal of Marketing Research (1995), which was awarded the 1997 ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence; "The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage Between Diversity and Performance" (1986), co-authored with Richard Bettis, and selected the Best Article published in the Strategic Management Journal for the period 1980-88; "The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation" (1993) received the 1994 Maurice Holland Award as the Best Paper published in Research Technology Management in 1993; and "A Strategy for Growth: The Role of Core Competence in the Corporation" won the European Foundation for Management Award in 1993.