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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You may have heard or read the phrase “core competency” lately and wondered if it’s the latest example of meaningless corporate lingo, or ...

Organizations are more complex than ever, and focusing too much on Gary Hamel’s idea of “core competencies” is both outdated and damaging to your company’s emotional infrastructure. Since Gary Hamel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch this short explainer video by Harvard Business Review and find out why Core Competencies are important for strategists in large companies. Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad first introduced this ...

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 ...

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