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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. The study focused specifically on the impact the Great Depression had on innovation in the United States, both in the short and long-term. Learning to forget.

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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This

Harvard Business Review

The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation. You, on the other hand, are in for the long haul.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

As Karim Tabbouche, the chief strategy officer of VIVA Bahrain, told me: “Our planning process had become myopic and short term in nature, with our objectives becoming tactical and linear in nature. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Add to Cart.