C K Prahalad's visit in IIMK

The person who has topped 'The Thinkers 50', whose name is now taken before 'Bill Gates', 'Michael Porter', 'Philip Kotler', 'Steve Jobs' came to campus for Convo and our batch got the chance to interact with him.
Its enchanting when you know that you have an interaction with a person who is the best in the world. We are just in mid twenty's and are getting the chance to listen to all that gyan. It makes your confidence boost up [further up :) ] by talking to such celebrity.

Interaction started, with Dr Prahalad asking us, to put him question instead of he giving gyaan. He was saying who would be the first person to ask and I got inspired from his words and asked abt Casas Bahia, Brazilian Retail i.e. as to why that Model has not been replicated else where.
He said that it has been replicated in Mexico [but I was asking in context to Asian Market :) ]
and further said that Kishore Biyani is looking forward onto it seriously.

After this, discussion on Morality started. He said it’s decreasing in India day by day. And it’s vital to imbibe ethical principles that were there in our culture long time back. Also for extremely greedy people, it becomes even more important that they remain ethical :)
He asked us to check Corruption Index, Human Devlopment Index, Per Capita Index and find the correlation between them. The results explain just one thing 'MORALITY is it'.

Then he asked us to study model for 'B D' (Desi Cigarettes), 'Dabbawala', 'Arvind' ...........
He said we don't value things in our Nation. In context to Dabbawals he said only once he wrote about Dabbawalas and their six sigma process it got popular and Indians realized it.

Then he talked about entrepreneurship. He said it’s a drive that you need to have within.
Don’t wait for experience; it will make things difficult for you as you go down the line. So go for entrepreneurship straight from B-School, when your batch mates would be having three offers. You will have to be courageous and that is what entrepreneurship about.

It was awesome listening to the Legendary Management Guru. Don’t miss him guys incase you get any opportunity to listen to him.& IIMK Rocks…..