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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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The Most Intriguing HBR Blog Posts of 2010

Harvard Business Review

In a previous post, we listed The Top 10 HBR Blog Posts of 2010 , according to our readers. Here we've collected another group of posts from 2010, some almost as popular as the Top 10, others that should have been more popular than they were, all that are well worth your time. Some of our favorite posts are unclassifiable.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. Who is the most influential living management thinker? The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November.

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The Middle East Could Be a Cradle of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. Long before the Arab uprising in 2010 — and uninhibited by uncertainty and instability today — Middle East entrepreneurs have used innovation to overcome challenges and to find new opportunities for growth. They told stories.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. Collaboration Global business Innovation' Can the $300 House project deliver on The Three Ds? Stay tuned.

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So the list that follows is my ranking of the Top 10 Speakers from World Business Forum 2010 as well as my logic behind the rankings. Vijay Govindarajan - Vijay is a Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of Tuck’s Center for Global Leadership at Dartmouth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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