C. K. Prahalad

1. In 1964, CK Prahalad enrolled in the very first postgraduate batch of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, a bold step after working four years at Union Carbide in Chennai.

2. 🌟 By 1975, he had completed his doctoral thesis on multinational management at Harvard Business School in just two and a half years, returning briefly to IIM Ahmedabad as a professor before moving to the US.

3. In the early 1990s, Prahalad advised Philips during a financial crisis, designing 'Operation Centurion' which revived the company within three years, showcasing his knack for corporate turnarounds.

4. 🌍 In 2002, he shocked the business world with "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," arguing that the world’s poorest 4 billion people constituted a profitable market—a notion that redefined global business strategy.

5. He co-authored the 1990 Harvard Business Review article "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which became one of the journal’s most reprinted articles, influencing how multinational corporations think about competitive advantage.

6. 🌐 Prahalad introduced the idea of co-creation with customers, summarized as N=1 and R=G, predicting today's personalized and globally networked business models seen in Amazon and Google.

7. In 2007, he articulated the India@75 vision, inspiring the Confederation of Indian Industry and later influencing the Government of India’s New India@75 strategy for economic, technological, and moral growth by 2022.

8. ❓ How did Prahalad’s early experiences negotiating with communist unions and growing up in diverse India shape his revolutionary ideas about inclusive capitalism and corporate strategy?