Strategic Innovators

Strategic Innovators

Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. He has been cited by BusinessWeek and Forbes as one of the top ten professors in strategy.

Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators—from Idea to Execution
Discover how to transform breakthrough ideas into breakthrough growth.
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See also the Harvard Business Review article adapted from the book,
"Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations."

Learn more about VG's thinking on Changing the Rules of the Game, Organizational Capabilities for Global Leadership, and Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations.
See and hear VG describing his Box 1-2-3 Framework in a short video clip.
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In his role as director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School, VG provides oversight to the center's research initiatives. The center is currently researching best practices for innovation with a central hypothesis that there are many different kinds of innovation requiring different organizational approaches. The center's approach to research is to create thoughtful learning partnerships with corporations.

"Helping CEOs and Senior Executives Build Strategic Thinking Capability"
Voices From the Corporate Cutting Edge

Fight or Acquire - Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
When confronted with a brash startup wielding a revolutionary technology, incumbents can fight…or they can simply reach into their deep pockets and acquire.