Richard D’Aveni and Vijay Govindarajan, professors at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, have been nominated for awards at the tenth anniversary of the Thinkers50 global ranking of management experts. D’Aveni was nominated for the Strategy Award. Govindarajan was nominated for the Breakthrough Idea Award and the Innovation Award. Winners will be announced at an awards gala on November 14 in London.

This year, the awards highlight thinkers whose ideas have the potential to change the world for the better, such as Govindarajan’s $300 house campaign to re-invent housing for the world’s poorest people. Govindarajan, included on the Thinkers50 list three times, is known for his concept of reverse innovation, where innovation takes place in emerging markets and is brought back to developed countries. The concept is rated by Harvard Business Review as one of the ten big ideas of the decade. VG’s next book, Reverse Innovation, written with Chris Trimble, will be published by HBR Press in April 2012.

Shortlisted for the Strategy Award, D'Aveni, who has been on the Thinkers50 list twice, coined the term “Hypercompetition” in the 1990s. His current research topics include developing strategies to revive America's economic power, strategic capitalism, and price-quality competition. He is currently working on a paper with K. Pauwels, "The Dynamics of Price-Quality Competition: Oligopolistic, Resource-Based, or Hypercompetition?" D’Aveni is author of Beating the Commodity Trap and the upcoming book, Strategic Capitalism.

“The Thinkers50 acknowledges the best new management thinking,” says Des Dearlove, who created the Thinkers50 with Stuart Crainer in 2001. “We are looking for ideas that extend beyond the business world to address issues ranging from reducing poverty to building a sustainable model of capitalism.”

About the Thinkers50
Developed by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, the global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website, followed by input from a panel of advisors led by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove.
 

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