The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Editor’s note: This post was co-written with Christian Sarkar. When the New York Times printed “Hands Off Our Houses,” an op-ed about our idea for a $300 House for the poor, we were both delighted and dismayed — delighted because the $300 House was being discussed, and dismayed because authors Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, […]

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Vijay Govindarajan

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Vijay Govindarajan

June 07, 2011

Editor’s note: This post was co-written with Christian Sarkar.

Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, and faculty partner at the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His latest book is Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future . His Harvard Business Review articles “Engineering Reverse Innovations” and “Stop the Innovation Wars” won McKinsey Awards for best article published in HBR. His HBR articles “How GE Is Disrupting Itself” and “The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention” are HBR all-time top-50 bestsellers. Follow him on LinkedIn.
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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

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