Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9 Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. Cost-conscious consumers can access incredibly affordable, often inventive solutions. But the middle class remains overlooked. And that middle class is surging.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) Almost always longer than initial projections; be patient for growth and impatient for profits.

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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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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. So why are they doing things that are just so obviously wrong?". The answer we came to was a simple one.

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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. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation. Design Project management' You, on the other hand, are in for the long haul.

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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

MARCH 31, 2016

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. ” Yet it is not surprising that so many organizations focus mainly—even exclusively—on Box 1. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Add to Cart.

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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. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge. The Energy Challenge. The Co-Creation Challenge.

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