C. K. Prahalad
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Prahalad on 8 November 2009, at World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2009.
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| Born |
8 August 1941 Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, British India (now Kovai, Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Died | 16 April 2010 (aged 68) San Diego |
| Nationality | Indian American |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater |
Loyola College, Chennai IIM Ahmedabad Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Spouse(s) | Gayatri |
| Children | Murali Krishna, Deepa Rita |
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (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, USA.
He was the co-author of "Core Competence of the Corporation" (with Gary Hamel) and "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" (with Stuart L. Hart), 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.
Prahalad was born in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) in 1941. His father was a Tamil scholar and judge in Madras (now Chennai). At 19 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.
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