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Core Competence at NEC and GTE
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In the Harvard Business Review article "The Core Competence of the Corporation," authors C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel put forth the notion of core competence with a comparison of NEC's focus on core competence and GTE's focus on businesses rather than competencies. The article went on to become the best-selling HBR reprint in history and ushered in a wave of consulting and academic work that said that core competence was the key to company performance. The authors predicted a bright future for NEC and other "competence-based" companies and potential obsolescence for GTE and other "business-based" companies. The present case juxtaposes quotes from the article with a discussion of the evolution of NEC and GTE through 1999. It includes performance data on the two companies that allows for a critical assessment (and counterintuitive evaluation) of the core competence idea for the 10 years preceding the publication of the article and the 10 years following the publication.