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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Voices against dual-class shares, which violate the principles of corporate democracy and the precept of “one share one vote,” have increased over time. An influential 50-member Investor Stewardship Group (ISG), overseeing $22 trillion in assets, demands a total elimination of dual-class stock. Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets,...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 12/06/2018 at 06:39 am

Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

The SEC Chairman recently announced a policy initiative to enable the ordinary investors to invest in private companies. Currently, only  wealthy accredited investors are allowed to invest in private companies. His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. But in our view this policy, even if...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 10/16/2018 at 08:45 am

How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

America spends $3.3 trillion on health care, or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. These numbers exclude the millions more who are underinsured —...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 10/11/2018 at 07:55 am

Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Elon Musk recently tweeted that he intends to take Tesla private, that is, to take Tesla off U.S. stock exchanges. In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Many conjectures have been offered to explain this controversial trend. We offer...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 08/27/2018 at 07:24 am

Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Doctors are sometimes blamed for the ills of the U.S. health care system, but our five-year research project in India and the U.S. revealed the opposite. Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found). Read the entire post at Harvard Business Review>>
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 08/13/2018 at 08:44 am

A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. What caused this slump? It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant. In a recent HBR...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 08/13/2018 at 08:42 am

Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

If you ran a fancy restaurant, would you want the chef also to clean dishes and mop the floor? Of course not. You’d hire others to do these things and let the chef focus on producing delicious food. This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. That’s why lawyers are helped by paralegals,...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 07/19/2018 at 09:14 am

3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2 trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP, on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. costs quite...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 07/09/2018 at 10:05 am

Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time. In our recent HBR article, we argued that financial statements fail to capture the...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 07/06/2018 at 08:58 am

The Factors Behind China’s Growing Strength in Innovation

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. The legend goes that Frank’s father had given him an expensive remote-controlled model helicopter for doing well in school. When the helicopter predictably crashed shortly after, Wang became determined to build a better controller. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 07/06/2018 at 08:55 am

Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time. In our recent HBR article, we argued that financial statements fail to capture the...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 06/08/2018 at 10:33 am

Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years. Twitter reported a  loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. For the next four years, it continued to report losses. Similarly, Microsoft...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 02/26/2018 at 09:25 am

Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? Is this a warning shot that signals that other legacy...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 02/05/2018 at 05:38 am

What U.S. CEOs Can Learn from GM’s India Failure

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. The company re-entered a liberalizing India in 1994, after abandoning the country in 1954. Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company, GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits,...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 06/15/2017 at 06:32 am

Celtics Should NOT trade their Number 1 Pick

Once Celtics sign two players under maximum contract ($30 million pay per year), they wont have enough cap space to sign a third star under max contract. So that leaves one more slot. Isaiah Thomas (IT) is coming up for free agency in 2018 summer. He will demand max contract. Can Celtics beat Cavs with IT and Horford. After Game 1, the answer to this question: Are you kidding me? Celtics need 3 All-Stars to beat Cavs....
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 05/18/2017 at 12:44 pm

HBS Professor Mihir Desai’s New Book

In The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, my friend and HBS Professor Mihir Desai shows how the big ideas of finance can be mapped to ways to understand one’s life. Each chapter is a big idea of finance (risk, valuation, leverage, etc) but the intuition is developed entirely by using the humanities - literature, history, philosophy etc. And, through the use of the...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 05/15/2017 at 05:43 am

Vote For Ron Adner in Thinkers 50

My good friend Ron Adner, David T. McLaughlin Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth, a Best Selling Author, and an Award-Winning Teacher, is the world’s leading expert on strategy and innovation. May I request you to cast your vote for him on the Thinkers50 List this year: http://thinkers50.com/nominations/.  Be sure to nominate Ron Adner for the Strategy Award in addition to voting for him in the Overall Ranking....
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 05/02/2017 at 06:21 am

DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN US HEALTH CARE

US health care system is on an unattainable path— very high cost, not necessarily world class quality, and cannot guarantee universal access. Here are 21 companies that are using digital technologies to transform health care: http://fortune.com/2017/04/20/digital-health-revolution/ We need more bottom up innovations in health care. 
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 05/02/2017 at 06:19 am

VOTE FOR SYD FINKELSTEIN IN THINKERS 50

My good friend Syd Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at Tuck at Dartmouth and a Best Selling Author, is the world’s leading expert on talent and leadership. He has been part of the Thinkers50 Management Guru List. May I request you to cast your vote for him on the Thinkers50 List this year: http://thinkers50.com/nominations/.  Be sure to nominate Syd Finkelstein for the Talent Award in...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 04/18/2017 at 06:21 am

US Health Care Reform— Look To India For Answers

US Health care reform is back on the table, again. For better solutions to control soaring health care costs, US should look to the health care delivery innovations of leading Indian hospitals: https://hbr.org/2013/11/delivering-world-class-health-care-affordably
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 04/14/2017 at 06:15 am

VOTE FOR DR. ANIL GUPTA IN THINKERS 50

My good friend Anil Gupta, the Michael Dingman Chair at the Smith School of Business at The University of Maryland at College Park, is the world's leading expert on globalization. A regular attendee at World Economic Forum summits including Davos, he has been part of the Thinkers50 Management Guru List for the last four years. May I request you to cast your vote for him on the Thinkers 50 List this year:...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 03/22/2017 at 12:31 pm

Doing Business in India Requires a Mobile-First Strategy

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. A telecommunications revolution, towards fourth generation (4G) mobile services, will transform the consumer landscape over the next 5-10 years. This revolution will transform India the same way automobiles changed America 100...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 01/05/2017 at 11:38 am

The Scary Truth About Corporate Survival

It’s one of those stats that’s constantly thrown around at conferences: 80% of the companies that existed before 1980 are no longer around—and another 17% probably won’t be here in five years. Dartmouth professor Vijay Govindarajan heard versions of this so often that he eventually began using it himself—even though he didn’t know whether it was accurate or, if it was, why it was true....
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 11/16/2016 at 08:04 am

Corporate America Is Now Almost As Risky As Main Street

We all know that starting a small business is a risky proposition — only about half of all small-company start-ups make it to five years. Now, however, comes word from researchers at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College that even publicly traded companies face futures almost as precarious. Read the entire post at Harvard Business Review>>
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 10/20/2016 at 09:44 am

Strategy When Creative Destruction Accelerates

Abstract:       Life is short. That’s never been more true for corporations today. An analysis of all 29,688 firms that listed from 1960 through 2009, divided into 10-year cohorts, reveals that newly listed firms in recent cohorts fail more frequently than did those in older ones. Creative destruction is accelerating because there is a fundamental shift in the American economy. The...
Posted by: Vijay Govindarajan - 10/14/2016 at 11:02 am

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