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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition

by C. K. Prahalad
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
23h 35m
English
Pearson
Content preview from The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition

Casas Bahia: Fulfilling a Dream

Through a unique approach to customer service, Casas Bahia has developed an innovative business model that successfully serves the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) population throughout Brazil.

It is all about fulfilling the customer dream. My sales agent has to be very well-dressed, shaved and always smiling. If he has a personal problem, he cannot come to work. I will never allow him to transmit to my customer anything but perfection.

Michael Klein, Chief Financial Officer, Casas Bahia

In 1952, after surviving two years in a Nazi concentration ...

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