Professor Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. In addition to his positions at Tuck, he is the Professor-in-Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant for General Electric.

Professor Govindarajan has been named to a series of lists by influential publications, including Top Ten Business School Professors in Corporate Executive Education, BusinessWeek; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coaches on Strategy, Forbes; Outstanding Faculty, BusinessWeek Guide to Best B-Schools; Top 50 Management Thinkers, The Times (London); "Superstar" Management Thinkers from India, BusinessWeek; and Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students.

The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, Professor Govindarajan was inducted into the Academy of Management Journal's Hall of Fame, and was ranked by Management International Review as one of the "Top 20 North American Superstars" for research in strategy and organization. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 40-year history of Academy of Management Journal.

More than 70 articles by Professor Govindarajan have appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Strategic Management Journal; Harvard Business Review; California Management Review; and MIT Sloan Management Review. He has published seven books, including the international best seller, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators (Harvard Business School Press, 2005).

Professor Govindarajan works with CEOs and top management teams in Global Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. He has worked with twenty-five percent of the Fortune 500 corporations including Boeing, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Deere, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, New York Times, Procter & Gamble, Sony, and Wal- Mart. He is a regular keynote speaker in CEO forums and major conferences including the World Innovation Forum and BusinessWeek CEO Forum.

Professor Govindarajan received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and was awarded the Robert Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal. He also received his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School where he was included in the Dean's Honor List. Prior to this, VG received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide.

Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, he was on the faculties of Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India). He has also served as a visiting professor at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the International University of Japan (Urasa, Japan), and Helsinki School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland).