First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2013

Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Marketing Challenge. 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. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge. The Energy Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!) As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. the United States.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. The race for the middle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. by Vijay Govindarajan. A lesson in accurately valuing yourself -- from the stock market. Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing. by Rob Wheeler. Businesses should become profitable before they become big. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 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. I was pleased to discover the $300 House challenge and I applaud the efforts of Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

A new report from EIT Health aims to uncover the state of the market across Europe, and especially the challenges startups still face in selling into the sector. Within our own network, we’ve been hearing how the crisis has expediated the process of accessing the NHS and broader healthcare market for some EIT Health supported start-ups.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Don’t engage in over-the-top discounting that trains customers, both in B2C and B2B markets, to buy cleverly on price and price alone. It also determines which market segments the company will serve and what channels it will use to reach them. Honda once dominated the motorbike market in Vietnam, with a share of 90%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., Throughout the continent — and this is true throughout other emerging markets too — millions of people are glued to their cell phones.

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Innovation Govindarajan Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. And an August 2010 blog by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar challenged designers to create a house for $300 and set off a campaign to re-invent housing for the world's poorest people, building on C.K.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market. Reinventing healthcare.

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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. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Triple the U.S.

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Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 15

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. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Today, Stephanie A. We learned quite a bit.

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation. Don''t expect that simply hiring a design partner will magically unlock new revenue streams and markets. Hopefully, you''ve already done some of this work up front.

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Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

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. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more.

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Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Vijay Govindarajan - Vijay is a Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of Tuck’s Center for Global Leadership at Dartmouth. Not only did Steve keep the entire audience at Radio City Music Hall in stitches, he did it while making astute observations and keen insights on what it takes to be successful in business.

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