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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. It is in nonlinear—nonconforming, breakthrough—change. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business Review

Business discipline: The third key quality of doctorpreneurs is that they pay close attention to finances, capital spending, and management processes because they understand that if their organization is not highly productive, it will not survive and cannot achieve its purpose of serving the greatest number of people. Further Reading.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. It had performed almost 2,000 procedures, including 759 cath-lab procedures. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Himanshu Saxena – Strategic mindset, design thinker, and mindfulness practitioner, he was appointed a business coach for ‘Industry Vertical Heads’ under Prof Vijay Govindarajan at Tuck School of Business. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Strategy to Execution Advisors.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

by Vijay Govindarajan. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing. by Rob Wheeler. Businesses should become profitable before they become big. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. by Linda Hill and Kent Lineback.

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Three Innovation Trends in Asia

Harvard Business Review

Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. For example, when GE introduced a low-cost electrocardiogram machine in India, it also developed innovative ways to finance and distribute the device. For example, Kraft struggled for years to bring its Oreo-branded cookies to China. Have you heard of Tencent?

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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. Learning to forget. In his three box solution, a crucial element is for us to reassess the things we’ve always done, and stop doing many of them.