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How The Coronavirus Is Transforming Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Unnecessary hurdles.

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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? In Creativity Crisis? What Creativity Crisis? Michael Schrage led some more conventional wisdom to the slaughterhouse.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti.

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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.

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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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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. 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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