Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. Our experience shows that when people take control of their effort against well defined goals, innovation happens.

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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?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

To integrate something such as the MIT triaging tool will require more akin to what Vijay Govindarajan refers to as task shifting, where AI will take on some of the tasks it is well suited to, freeing up the highly skilled doctors to do the work they are best suited to. Reinventing healthcare. . around its introduction.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. It is important to allocate resources to Box 1, Box 2, and Box 3 projects to maintain a healthy balance among the boxes.” Vijay Govindarajan.

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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. We learned quite a bit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s your job to pour what you know into the project and travel with the team: think of it as an equal partnership. Ziba''s service innovation and retail design work with Umpqua Bank , for example, continues to be relevant and productive years after it was completed, with the bank adding dozens of branches and tens of billions in holdings.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 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. It has been successfully used in over 20 projects throughout Northern California including two residential projects currently under development.

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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. As a result, it's extremely difficult to sell innovation to this consumer. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge.

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