Faculty Directory
Chris Trimble
Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration
E-Mailchris.trimble@dartmouth.edu
Phone603-646-0463
DegreeBS, University of Virginia, 1989; MBA, Tuck School of Business, 1996
AREAS OF EXPERTISEInnovation and entrepreneurship in large organizations
Current Research Topics
How to execute an innovation initiative, reverse innovation, innovation in health care
Selected Publications
With V. Govindarajan, "Not All Profits Are Equal," Across the Board, September 2002; with V. Govindarajan, "Strategic Innovation and the Science of Learning," MIT Sloan Management Review, 45(2), Winter 2004; with V. Govindarajan, "Building Breakthrough Business Within Established Organizations," Harvard Business Review, 83(5), May 2005; with V. Govindarajan, "Organizational DNA for Strategic Innovation," California Management Review, 47(3), Spring 2005; with V. Govindarajan, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution, Harvard Business School Press, 2005; with J. Immelt and V. Govindarajan, "How GE is Disrupting Itself," Harvard Business Review, October 2009; with V. Govindarajan, "Stop the Innovation Wars," Harvard Business Review, July-August 2010; with V. Govindarajan, "The Other Side of Innovation–Solving the Execution Challenge," Harvard Business Review Press, 2010; with V. Govindarajan, "The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention," Harvard Business Review, January-February 2011; with V. Govindarajan, Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012
Working Papers
With V. Govindarajan, How Stella Saved the Farm–A Wild and Woolly Yarn about Making Innovation Happen
Awards
Edward Tuck Scholar, Tuck School of Business, 1996; Accenture Award for highest-impact article, California Management Review, 2006; McKinsey Award for best article of the year in the Harvard Business Review (second place) for "Stop the Innovation Wars," 2010
Professional Activities
Academic positions: Tuck School of Business, 2000–present; Executive Director, William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School, 2000–10
Nonacademic positions: Nuclear Submarine Officer, United States Navy, 1989–94; Consultant, Bain & Company, 1996–97; Consultant, High Performance Systems, Inc., 1997–2000; Senior Fellow, Katzenbach Partners LLC, 2005–09
Personal Website
Chris Trimble has dedicated the past ten years to studying a single challenge that vexes even the best-managed corporations: how to execute an innovation initiative. Most recently, he published “How GE is Disrupting Itself” in the October 2009 Harvard Business Review, with Jeff Immelt and Vijay Govindarajan.