Charles M. Rice
2020 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine | Discoverer of the Hepatitis C Virus | Greenberg Professor in Virology & SNF Institute Director, Rockefeller University
Vijay Govindarajan
Coxe Distinguished Professor, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth | World Authority on Strategy & Innovation | Creator of Reverse Innovation | Bestselling Author | Thinkers50 Hall of Fame
Vijay Govindarajan, known as "VG," is one of the world's foremost authorities on strategy and innovation. A Dartmouth Tuck professor, Thinkers50 Hall of Fame inductee, and NYT bestselling author, he pioneered "reverse innovation" and the Three-Box Solution. On stage, he turns decades of research with the world's biggest companies into practical frameworks for building the future while still winning in the present.
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Vijay Govindarajan biography
Vijay Govindarajan, known worldwide as “VG,” is one of the world’s foremost authorities on strategy and innovation. A Dartmouth professor, bestselling author, and adviser to global CEOs, he has spent his career answering one of the hardest questions in business: how can established companies keep innovating and reinventing themselves even as they run today’s core business at full strength?
Innovation speaker Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, the school’s highest faculty honor. He is best known for pioneering the concept of “reverse innovation”, the idea that breakthroughs increasingly flow from the developing world to the rich world, first articulated in the landmark Harvard Business Review article “How GE Is Disrupting Itself,” which he co-wrote with GE CEO Jeff Immelt while serving as the company’s first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant. HBR later named reverse innovation one of the great moments in management of the last century.
From Reverse Innovation to Fusion Strategy
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Govindarajan has written some fourteen books, including Reverse Innovation, the influential Three-Box Solution, which gives leaders a framework for managing the present, forgetting the past, and creating the future simultaneously, and his most recent, Fusion Strategy, co-authored with Venkat Venkatraman, on how real-time data and AI will transform industrial companies. A two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review, he has been ranked the #1 Indian management thinker by Thinkers50, inducted into its Hall of Fame, and honored with its Breakthrough Innovation Award. He is a rare scholar with more than ten articles in the world’s top academic journals and just as many in leading practitioner publications, and he holds an MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School.
As a speaker, Vijay Govindarajan translates decades of research and hands-on work with the world’s largest companies into clear, practical frameworks that leaders can act on. He speaks on strategic innovation and the Three-Box Solution, reverse innovation and competing in emerging markets, how incumbents can disrupt themselves, and how real-time data and AI are rewriting competitive advantage. Audiences leave with a shared language for innovation and a concrete roadmap for building the future while still winning in the present.
Vijay Govindarajan Speaking Videos
Vijay Govindarajan - Innovation Mindset - Nordic Business Forum
TEDxBigApple - Vijay Govindarajan - Reverse Innovation
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Drawing on his influential book, Govindarajan gives leaders a deceptively simple framework for managing innovation: Box 1, manage the present core business; Box 2, selectively forget the past; and Box 3, create the future. He shows how the hardest part of innovation is doing all three at once, and how leaders can balance today's performance with tomorrow's breakthroughs.
Govindarajan introduced the concept that transformed how global companies think about growth: that innovation increasingly flows from the developing world outward. He shows leaders how to innovate for emerging markets rather than simply exporting rich-world products, and how those "reverse" innovations can become powerful sources of advantage in developed markets too.
Why do established, successful companies so often fall to disruptive newcomers, and how can they avoid it? Drawing on his work with GE and dozens of other corporations, Govindarajan shows how large organizations can overcome the forgetting, borrowing, and learning challenges of innovation to disrupt themselves before someone else does.
Based on his latest book, Govindarajan reveals how industrial companies can combine what they do best, building physical products, with what digital does best: using AI and real-time data. He shows leaders in asset-heavy industries how to turn their products into data-rich, intelligent offerings, and why real-time insight, not physical assets alone, is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage.
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Why Vijay Govindarajan?
Booking Vijay Govindarajan gives audiences one of the most influential and respected minds in strategy and innovation. A Dartmouth Tuck professor, Thinkers50 Hall of Fame inductee ranked the #1 Indian management thinker, and two-time McKinsey Award winner, he pioneered ideas, from reverse innovation to the Three-Box Solution, that leaders and companies worldwide now use as standard vocabulary. His authority is grounded in real practice, including his role as GE's first Chief Innovation Consultant, and his frameworks are famously clear and immediately actionable. Whether the topic is disrupting your own business, competing in emerging markets, or harnessing AI and data, he delivers rigorous insight without jargon. He is an ideal speaker for events on innovation, strategy, transformation, and growth. To bring Vijay Govindarajan to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Vijay Govindarajan?
Vijay Govindarajan, known as "VG," is an Indian-American academic and one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a former Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. The creator of the concept of "reverse innovation" and author of some fourteen books including Reverse Innovation, The Three-Box Solution, and Fusion Strategy, he served as General Electric's first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant, and has been ranked the #1 Indian management thinker by Thinkers50 and inducted into its Hall of Fame.
What is reverse innovation?
Reverse innovation is a concept pioneered by Vijay Govindarajan describing an innovation that is adopted first in the developing world before spreading to wealthier countries, the reverse of the traditional flow, in which products were designed for rich markets and later adapted for poorer ones. He introduced the idea in the Harvard Business Review article "How GE Is Disrupting Itself," co-written with GE CEO Jeff Immelt. The insight is that designing affordable, resourceful solutions for emerging markets can produce breakthroughs that ultimately disrupt and win in developed markets too.
What topics does innovation speaker Vijay Govindarajan cover?
Vijay Govindarajan speaks on strategic innovation and the Three-Box Solution, reverse innovation and emerging markets, how established companies can disrupt themselves, and how real-time data and AI (his "fusion strategy") are transforming competitive advantage. His keynotes suit events on innovation, strategy, digital transformation, and growth. To book Vijay Govindarajan as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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