Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College and is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49. He is
widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation.
He is a NYT and WSJ Best Selling Author. His most recent best-seller is The Three Box
Solution – A Strategy for Leading Innovation.
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.
VG was named by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker in the world and received
the Breakthrough Innovation Award in 2011. VG was inducted into Thinkers 50 Management
Thinkers Hall of Fame and was given the Distinguished Achievement Award for most
contributions to the understanding of innovation in 2019. VG is the only recipient of
Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories from Thinkers 50.
VG has worked with CEOs and top management teams in over 40% of the Fortune 500
companies to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. He has been a
keynote speaker in the BusinessWeek CEO Forum, HSM World Business Forum, TED, and
World Economic Forum at Davos.
VG received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and was awarded the Robert
Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal. He received his MBA with distinction from the
Harvard Business School. VG received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India where he
was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide.