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The Three-Box Approach to Business Model Reinvention: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. To give readers a sense of how to apply the approach to their own setting, we interviewed Vijay Govindarajan and Brian Goldner, the CEO of Hasbro, Inc. Box 3: Create the future.

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The Most Intriguing HBR Blog Posts of 2010

Harvard Business Review

A post that neatly distilled a problem, framed an important question, and led to much commentary was Vijay Govindarajan's The $300 House: A Hands-On Lab for Reverse Innovation? We hope you'll visit our blogs regularly in 2011 and participate in the conversation. In Creativity Crisis? What Creativity Crisis?

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. Kim and RenĂ©e Maubourgne, the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy , have influenced companies, not-for-profits and national governments around the world. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. It's a fair question.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. What is in a good innovation strategy? The "new normal" of constant change requires mastering perpetual transformation.

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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. Fundraising for the rural project progressed and some new strategies were developed to move forward in Port au Prince.

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Renee Mauborgne - Co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy , Renee offered great insights on creating demand, most particularly on creating consumer demand where little or none previously existed. Vijay Govindarajan - Vijay is a Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of Tuck’s Center for Global Leadership at Dartmouth.

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