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## Article 117 — a117

# Das Narayandas

**Profile.** Das Narayandas is the **author** of the source article and the **Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School**. Per the enrichment's canonical reference (his HBS faculty profile), he is a senior associate dean overseeing HBS Publishing and executive education, and a scholar of B2B marketing, customer relationships, and customer-centric strategy — the intellectual lineage behind this article.

**Role in the source.** Sole author and originating voice. He developed and named the [[framework-4s]] and the paired constructs [[concept-precision-efficiency]] and [[concept-scaled-intimacy]].

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Frameworks: [[framework-4s]]
- Core claims: [[claim-middle-market-death]], [[claim-incrementalism-punished]], [[claim-serving-everyone-fails]]
- Concepts: [[concept-barbell-market-pattern]], [[concept-analog-vs-digital-competition]], [[concept-competitor-centric-strategy]], [[concept-commodity-specialty-spectrum]]
- Quotes: [[quote-reward-extremes]], [[quote-analog-vs-digital-survival]], [[quote-strategy-liability]]
- Contrarian insights: [[contrarian-incremental-improvement]], [[contrarian-broad-market-appeal]]
- Recommended actions: [[action-segment-customers-strictly]], [[action-strip-non-valued-features]], [[action-align-operating-model]]