Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2016

Dartmouth professor Vijay Govindarajan writes, “As much as we might pay lip service to the fact that the future will differ dramatically from the past, we often behave as though it will be exactly the same.” Vijay Govindarajan has incorporated good principles for managing change into a framework he calls The Three Box Solution.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Black Enterprise Magazine ‘Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America’ and ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America’. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. World authority on project management. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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

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. In 2009, Godrej & Boyce launched ChotuKool , a $70 refrigerator targeting the 85% of Indians who found existing models too bulky, expensive, and power hungry. The race for the middle.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy. 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!) the United States.

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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

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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