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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation. I’ve never heard anyone speak so fluently on the topic of innovation. Most notably he did it very well.

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The $300 House: The Corporate 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. We've gained a new appreciation for a whole new world of innovation for us to explore. Today, Stephanie A. The $300 House could create the same kind of virtuous cycle.

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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. What reverse innovation lessons might be learned by the participants in such a project? Boniface Haiti Foundation.