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Imagine you're German, you need a new family car, and you have a limited budget — say, US$9,400. What can you do? Continue using public transportation? Buy a used car? Or maybe buy a brand-new Dacia Logan!
Read the entire post at Harvard Business Review >>
The story of how Bharti Airtel Limited, the largest telecom service provider in India, chose to strategically outsource its core functions is nothing short of a fairy tale.
For a typical telecom operator, the pain point during the growth phase is planning for network requirements and preparing budgets for such a capital expenditure. Capacity has to be built ahead of demand, which usually means the telecom operator has to absorb the cost of unused capacity.
But Bharti changed the game >>
Not a day goes by when I am not reminded in some way of my friend and mentor, C.K. Prahalad.
For those of you who have been asking about CK's passing, I'd like to refer you to a number of tributes written by CK's friends and colleagues. I wrote one for the Times of India: A scholar who lived his theories and another for the Economic Times: CK Prahalad: Celebrating a great life.
See also: CK Prahalad: The Inclusive Visionary and CK Prahalad – The Man in Forbes India.
The folks at HBR have created a special section devoted to him, and Adi Ignatius has penned a tribute here.
We miss you, CK.
It was September 3, 1974. I walked into Aldrich Hall, extraordinarily excited to be a student in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. There were four Indians out of a class of 900. If someone had told me then that an Indian would one day become the dean of HBS, my reaction would have been: "Get serious!"
How things have changed. The top job in our profession is the dean of the Harvard Business School. By appointing Nitin Nohria to be the 10th HBS dean, Harvard President Drew Faust has created a signature moment for America, and for the Harvard Business School.
Read my post in HBR >>