#1 BEST SELLER
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McKinsey Award
– HBR, 2015
NYT BEST SELLER
Reverse Innovation is an important book.
– Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Lessons I learned 15 years ago in his class I still carry today. He is a truly gifted teacher.
– Anil Chitkara, T '94
VG shows how to turn breakthrough ideas into breakthrough growth.
– John Menzer, President and CEO, Wal-Mart International
Vijay (Vee-jay) Govindarajan (go-vin-da-RAH-jin), known as VG, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley incubator Mach49, and a Senior Advisor at the strategy consulting firm Acropolis Advisors. VG is a world-renowned expert on strategy and innovation. He is a NYT and WSJ Best Selling Author. VG is a two-time winner of the prestigious McKinsey Award for the Best Article published in HBR. Two of his HBR articles are all time Top 50 Best Sellers.
Tel: 603-289-0007
vg@dartmouth.edu
VG personally handles all inquiries. The best way to reach him is his email address. Only as a backup, use VG’s cell phone: 603-289-0007.
VG was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame and received the Distinguished Innovation Award.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan, comes a new, comprehensive playbook for developing your corporate strategy for the future. Learn more from the book
How do you meet the performance requirements of the current business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you foresee a change in your current model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? VG’s area of expertise is the Three Box Solution, the topic of his latest book. Learn more from the book
VG has been named the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School for two years starting Jan 1 2015.
VG has been named the inaugural holder of the Coxe Distinguished Professorship of Management. This is a new Dartmouth-wide faculty chair dedicated to bringing the tools of scientific management to nonprofit and non-governmental organizations focused on social goals such as improving health, education, humanitarian care, and the environment.
In the November 2013 Harvard Business Review, VG and his coauthor explain how 9 Indian hospitals deliver high quality healthcare at ultra-low cost.
VG is rated by Thinkers 50 as the #1 Indian Management Thinker.
VG -- as he's known throughout the business world -- worked with GE's CEO Jeff Immelt to write "How GE is Disrupting Itself," a Harvard Business Review article that introduced the concept of reverse innovation -- any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. Harvard Business Review has rated reverse innovation as one of the 10 big ideas of the decade.
Harvard Business Review, in the November 2012 issue, has identified Great Moments in Management in the Last Century. The list starts with Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management in 1911 and ends with Reverse Innovation in 2009.
Reached #1 on Wall Street Journal Business Best Seller
Reached #5 on New York Times best seller
Reached #1 on USA Today best seller list
Reached #1 on Barnes & Noble among all books
Reached #1 on Amazon among business books
Reached #7 on Amazon among all books
Reached #1 on the Business Best Seller in China
Reached #1 on the Business Best Seller in India
VG has been ranked #3 among great management thought leaders around the world and has also received the 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award for the $300 House Initiative.
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The Economist mentioned "Mr. Govindarajan's article on reverse innovation in the Harvard business Review made him famous" Read Article
VG has been named one of the world’s most important and influential business thinkers of 2009.
Article on Forbes | Article on VG's blog
Despite the recession, companies must do more than just play defense.
Article on WSJ | Article on VG's blog