Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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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 reverse innovation lessons might be learned by the participants in such a project? Urban Housing Design Prototype.

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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. In one of the projects, we t worked with Ashoka Change Leader Vishnu Swaminathan and his "Housing for All" project. Today, Stephanie A. Stephanie A.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. "That's just what my life is like. And they've been hugely successful.

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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. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

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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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