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How The Coronavirus Is Transforming Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. The authors remind us that the economic disruption is likely to force the creative destruction that was so memorably chronicled by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter as being the engine of invention and change.

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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. How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem?