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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

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Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

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This was originally posted in 2009, and it remains one of our most popular posts. by Vijay Govindarajan. To Get Paid What You're Worth, Know Your Disruptive Skills. More people commented on this post than on any other in HBR.org's history. The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received. by David Silverman. Don't bother. by Tony Schwartz.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

He told us: “In a Phillips Leadership Conclave in 2009, I listened to the presentation of Dr. Aravind Srinivasan (from Aravind Eye Care Hospital , the world renowned low-cost eye hospital with a mission “to eliminate needless blindness”). Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. His life was set. Further Reading.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Poverty has fallen from 22 percent of the population to 7 percent between 2003 and 2009. This effort must be replicated in other developing countries as well.

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