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. In Being Global , Angel Cabrera and Gregory Unruh define a new context for global leadership. Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. 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

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. Dr. Burns' career has spanned scientific research; issues management; science and technology leadership and business management. Today, Stephanie A. Stephanie A.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2010

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? Another post that reminded us that the developed world has much to learn from the developing one was What Poor Countries Can Teach Rich Ones About Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. His life was set. Further Reading. 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

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. You need to develop a process for hedging risk.

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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. So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. The $300 House: The Challenge.

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