The concept has been discussed for years by business professors and investing professionals alike and, while the idea of core competence has taken on a life of its own, Munger has often returned to ...

The idea of core competence was introduced into management literature in 1990 by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel. The two business academics wrote: Core competencies are the collective learning in the ...

The recession has inspired some companies to shed businesses and activities that are outside of their core competence. For example, Yahoo has refocused on selling display ads and being a portal for ...

Sometimes an idea can seem so astounding, so insightful, so revolutionary and smart that its influence is legendary. That's the way you could describe the 1990 Harvard Business Review paper The Core ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) is pleased to announce the release of the IPEC Core Competencies for ...

In the past 18 months, Volkswagen announced delays in the launch of two crucial models, first the eighth generation of its perennial bestseller, the VW Golf, and then its flagship electric car, the ID ...

A provocative—possibly apocryphal—story has the late C.K. Prahalad, the guru of “core competence,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply ...

While working on this season of “The Uncertain Hour,” we heard a lot of words and phrases that sounded weird to our ears. So each week we’re going to explain a bit of jargon. To get a new “Uncertain ...