Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management at The Tuck School of Business; Bestselling Author; World-Renowned Expert on Strategy & Innovation Known for the Three Box Solution

Hanover, NH, USA

Vijay Govindarajan Biography

Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is a distinguished academic, author, consultant, and speaker, recognized as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. VG holds the prestigious Coxe Distinguished Professorship at the Tuck School of Business, a Dartmouth-wide chair representing the highest distinction awarded to Dartmouth faculty. He has also served as a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School, a Faculty Partner at the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49, and a Senior Advisor at Acropolis Advisors.

VG has authored 15 influential books and collaborated with CEOs and top management teams at over 40% of Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Deere, J.P. Morgan Chase, Microsoft, P&G, and Wal-Mart. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric and has delivered keynote addresses at major global conferences like the BusinessWeek CEO Forum, the HSM World Business Forum, and the World Economic Forum at Davos.

VG's accolades include being named the World’s Best B-School Professor by Poets & Quants and a Top Ten B-School professor by Business Week. He was ranked by Forbes among the Top Five most respected executive coaches on strategy. VG is recognized by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker globally and has received the Breakthrough Idea Award and Innovation Award.

He has developed three groundbreaking business concepts: the Three Box Solution, Reverse Innovation, and Fusion Strategy. VG is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for best articles published in Harvard Business Review. His articles "How GE Is Disrupting Itself" and "The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention" are among HBR's Top 50 all-time bestsellers.

VG has been inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, elected Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for strategy research. He is one of the few academics to publish more than 25 articles in top academic journals and another 25 in leading practitioner journals.

VG's academic journey includes serving on the faculty of Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad). He holds an MBA with distinction and a doctorate from Harvard Business School, where he received the Robert Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal. He also earned a Chartered Accountancy degree in India, achieving the President’s Gold Medal for securing the top national rank.

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Vijay Govindarajan Speaking Topics

  • Three-Box Solution

    We now live in an era of constant change, driven by the dynamic forces of technology, globalization, the Internet, changing demographics, and shifting customer preferences. As a result, companies find that their strategies need almost constant redefinition—either because the old assumptions are no longer valid, or because the previous strategy has been imitated and neutralized by competitors. Rooted in these premises, the strategic and organizational challenges become:

    • How do we identify the market discontinuities that could transform our industry?
    • How can we create new growth platforms that exploit new market realities?
    • What are our core competencies and how can we leverage them to generate growth?
    • What new core competencies do we need to build?
    • What organizational DNA will allow us to anticipate and respond to changes on a continual basis?
    • How do we execute breakthrough strategies?

  • Innovation Execution

    Implementing Box 3 breakthrough innovation projects is the triple-flip-with-a-quadruple-twist of general management. No matter how talented and experienced the leader, chances are that this is a new and unfamiliar challenge. VG can help you understand the three fundamental challenges faced by Box 3 strategic experiments, and can offer several specific recommendations to help you overcome them.

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Vijay Govindarajan Videos

Leading Innovation: Three Box Solution with Vijay Govindarajan

Leading Innovation: Three Box Solution with Vijay Govindarajan

Leading Innovation: Three Box Solution with Vijay Govindarajan. A presentation on the Three Box Solution: a simple, accessible and powerful framework...

Power the Future with Generative AI and Real-Time Data | Vijay Govindarajan

Power the Future with Generative AI and Real-Time Data | Vijay Govindarajan

The laws of competitive advantage are changing, rewarding those who have the most robust real-time insights rather than the most valuable assets. To...

TEDxBigApple - Vijay Govindarajan - Reverse Innovation

TEDxBigApple - Vijay Govindarajan - Reverse Innovation

Vijay Govindarajan delivers a thought provoking talk on 'Reverse Innovation,' a term he co-defined referring to innovation emerging from developing...

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