The sad breakup of Kodak, finalized by the recent bankruptcy court approval to sell some $500 million in digital assets, carries a warning that business leaders may have missed: It’s not just your ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad put forth the idea of “core competencies” in a 1990 Harvard Business Review article, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” organizations have taken this insight as ...

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 ...

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile ...

A central goal of marketing strategy is to get an advantage over the competition. But how do you do that? Well, one way is to try to keep competitors from entering your business territory in the first ...

Our traditional politics could not deliver much in years. Many peer nations have surpassed us on many counts. We lag behind by a decade or two. Mostly Our global rankings are dismal to very poor. It ...

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 ...

MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Boy, we dodged a bullet on that one. TRANSLATION: What’s bad isn’t that we shot ourselves in the foot. It’s how fast we reloaded and fired again. — IS Survivalist Mike Laugh explains ...