Comments on: Dissing Prahalad

By: Nancy Landrum

Nancy Landrum — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:31:43 +0000

I, too, and writing against Prahalad’s suggestions and would be interested in exchanging ideas. nelandrum@ualr.edu

By: sumedha

sumedha — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:18:56 +0000

i am an mba student from IIPM ,doing my project on THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID..require suggestions ,as i am against this concept in my project….

By: The Filter^

The Filter^ — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:14:24 +0000

Worth a look…

Peter Klein on the bottom of the pyramid argument Peter Boettke on being a stipendiary ideologue There is an emotional appeal of the argument for the free society against the planned society of totalitarianism that I must admit to being

By: Anita McGahan

Anita McGahan — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:49:36 +0000

The core of Karnani’s critique is that development depends on conceiving of the poor as *potential* producers instead of consumers. I couldn’t agree more with Joe’s comment that the target consumers analyzed by Prahalad should be considered as the “middle of the pyramid.” Those living on less than $2 per day — and especially those living on less than $1 per day — typically suffer from malnutrition, inadequate basic health care, and insufficient basic education. The good news is that we now know how to provide for people at this basic level inexpensively. Once the poor receive basic care, the next step is to enfranchise them in the productive system.

By: Jung-Chin Shen

Jung-Chin Shen — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:54:20 +0000

CK’s argument, in my view, delivers one important message to western multinational enterprises (MNE): Pay attention to the uniqueness of the BOP market. I have seen some extremely successfully MNE, which own incredible resources and capabilities that RBV scholars appreciate, failed in some Chinese local markets because they failed to adjust to some unique characteristics of the BOP markets.

By: Joe Mahoney

Joe Mahoney — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:57:13 +0000

I would take the Karnani–Prahalad debate in a whole different direction. Prahalad is actually looking at the middle of the pyramid, and that those in greatest need at the actual bottom of the income pyramid are neglected.