Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. “So it’s important that American policy makers and American think-tanks can look at a model that costs a fraction of what they pay and see that it has similarly good outcomes.” Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Energy Challenge. Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Cost-conscious consumers can access incredibly affordable, often inventive solutions. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. For example, when GE introduced a low-cost electrocardiogram machine in India, it also developed innovative ways to finance and distribute the device.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

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 might a house-for-the-poor look like? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

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. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction. Alternative Energy as the Standard. building first in a factory, which is highly automated.

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