C.K. (Coimbatore Krishnarao) Prahalad was a Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Prahalad specialized in corporate strategy and the role of top management in large, diversified, multinational corporations. Dr. Prahalad has consulted with the top management of AT&T, Cargill, Eastman Kodak, honeywell, ICL, Philips, TRW, Quantum, NCR, and Oracle, and was Chairman and co-founder of Praja, an Internet company and was on the board of NCR. He was named as one of the top ten business professors in the US based by BusinessWeek, and one of the top ten teachers in the world by The Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Prahalad passed away in 2010, at the age of 68 year. Rest in peace.
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