'Strategic intent', 'core competence' and 'strategy as stretch and leverage', are all management concepts that have become associated with C.K. Prahalad and his frequent co-author, Gary Hamel, most often in the pages of the Harvard Business Review, but also in other journals and books. These...

Gary Hamel is well known for his forthright and challenging views on international corporate strategy. Together with his colleague, C.K. Prahalad, he has written extensively in Harvard Business Review on the core competence of corporations, competition for competence and, just this year, on...