Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. No longer will innovations travel solely from developed nations to developing ones — they will also flow in reverse. What new skills must you learn in order to be successful? Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere. How can you be more effective?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And they've been hugely successful. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble suggest that companies can consciously manage the balance between the "performance engine" (that minimizes mistakes) and the "discovery team" (that encourages experiments) by being clear about what core capabilities should be forgotten and borrowed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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 Marketing Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 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. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Today, Stephanie A.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

When the combination of low prices and high profits does occur, it means companies have relied on seven decisive success factors: They have a low-price position from day one. All successful low-price companies have focused on low prices and high volumes from the very beginning. In many cases they created radically new business models.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

To deal with this problem, over the course of thirty-five years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world, I have developed a simple, practical framework that recognizes all three competing challenges managers face when leading innovation. Vijay Govindarajan. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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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. Community Development, Infrastructure, Education, HealthCare Delivery. The Development of a Business Plan.

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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. This development plan can be scaled to build 3 million or 30 million units per year, if needed. The entire thing isn't unlike putting together giant Legos.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge. How do we do that?

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