Vijay Govindarajan
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Vijay Govindarajan | |
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India | |
Occupation(s) | Professor and consultant |
Known for | Three Box Solution Reverse Innovation |
Spouse | Kirthi (m. 1980) |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Fellow at the Strategic Management Society Two-time winner of the McKinsey award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review |
Website | www |
Vijay Govindarajan (born 18 November 1949), popularly known as VG, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide chair) at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School. He is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley Incubator Mach49. He worked as General Electric's innovation consultant and professor in residence from 2008 to 2010. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review. VG was inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2019 for his life-long work dedicated to the field of management, strategy, and innovation. VG received Thinkers 50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories: Breakthrough Idea Award in 2011 and Innovation Award in 2019.
Education
In 1974, Govindarajan received his chartered accountancy degree, where he was awarded the President's gold medal by the
Career
Govindarajan started his career as a professor at the
Govindarajan served as
Scholarly work
Govindarajan is the author of fourteen books and has published articles in academic journals such as the
Awards and honors
Thinkers 50 Innovation Award 2019
Best Article Award, Strategic Management Society, 2017
McKinsey Award for The Best HBR Article, 2015, First Place
Thinkers50 Breakthrough Innovation Award recipient
McKinsey Award 2010, 2nd Place
Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy
Outstanding Faculty, BusinessWeek Guide to the Best B-Schools, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993
Selected publications
- The Three Box Solution: A Strategy For Leading Innovation, HBR Press, April 2016
- Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 (with Chris Trimble).
- “Becoming a Better Corporate Citizen: How PepsiCo Moved Toward A Healthier Future” (with Indra K. Nooyi), Harvard Business Review, March–April 2020.
- “Engineering Reverse Innovation”, Harvard Business Review, July-Aug 2015 (with Amos Winter)
- “Building a $300 House for The Poor,” Harvard Business Review, March 2011.
- “The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention” Harvard Business Review, January 2011, 89(1- 2), (with Chris Trimble).
- “Reverse Innovation, Emerging Markets, and Global Strategy”, Global Strategy Journal, 2011, pp. 191–205.
- “Stop the Innovation Wars” Harvard Business Review, July 2010, 88(7), pp. 76–83 (with Chris Trimble).
- "How GE Is Disrupting Itself," Harvard Business Review, October 2009, 87(10), pp. 56–65 (with Jeffrey Immelt and Chris Trimble).
References
- ^ a b "Awards". Tuck School of Business. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ a b c "Vijay Govindarajan". Tuck School of Business. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ "Top 10 B-school professors in the world". CNN Money. 30 October 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
- ^ "Biography". Tuck School of Business. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
- ^ "Harvard Business Review's 52nd Annual McKinsey Awards". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 14 November 2013.