Contact
Tel: 603-289-0007
vg@dartmouth.edu
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Authors
Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. VG is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business. The Coxe Distinguished Professorship is a Dartmouth-wide faculty chair. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt to write “How GE is Disrupting Itself”, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation – any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. HBR picked reverse innovation as one of the Great Moments in Management in the Last Century. VG is a NYT and WSJ Best Selling author and a two-time winner of the prestigious McKinsey Award for the best article published in HBR. In the latest Thinkers 50 Rankings, Govindarajan is rated the #1 Indian Management Thinker.
Govindarajan has been identified as a leading management thinker by influential publications including: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy, rated by Forbes; Top 50 Management Thinker, named by The London Times; Rising Super Star, cited by The Economist; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students.
Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, VG was on the faculties of Harvard Business School, INSEAD (Fontainebleau) and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India).
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, Govindarajan was inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 50-year history of Academy of Management Journal.
VG is a rare faculty who has published more than ten articles in the top academic journals (Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal) and more than ten articles in prestigious practitioner journals including several best-selling HBR articles. He published the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Seller, Reverse Innovation.
VG has worked with CEOs and top management teams in more than 25% of the Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. His clients include: Boeing, Coca- Cola, Colgate, Deere, FedEx, GE, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, J&J, New York Times, P&G, Sony, and Wal-Mart. 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 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.
Ravi Ramamurti
Ravi Ramamurti is an expert on strategy and innovation in emerging markets. At Northeastern U., he holds the title of University Distinguished Professor, which is the highest honor bestowed on faculty members. Earlier he was the D’Amore-
McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy. He founded and heads the university’s Center for Emerging Markets. For over 35 years, he has studied the strategies of firms in and from emerging markets.
Professor Ramamurti obtained his BSC (Physics) from St. Stephen’s College, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, where he received the Gold Medal for graduating at the top of his class, and his doctorate from Harvard Business School, where he was awarded the HBS Dissertation Fellowship.
In recognition of his “outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business” Ramamurti was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2008. A survey ranked him in the top 1% of all scholars in the field of international business. He was elected by members of the Academy of Management to serve on the board of its International Management Division (2003-08). In 2017, he was recognized by Global Awards (London) as the “most outstanding thinker on strategy and innovation in emerging markets in the world.”
Ravi has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School in the Business-Government-and-International-Economy area, at the Wharton School (U. of Pennsylvania), and at MIT-Sloan School. He has also been a visiting professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, CEIBS Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland. He is a six-time winner of the ADL Prize for Professor of the Year based on his teaching.
Ravi has done research and consulting with firms and governments in more than 20 emerging markets, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, and the UAE. He has also been an adviser to the United Nations, USAID, and Fulbright, and was principal adviser the World Bank’s board on privatization and to The Economist group for its online courses on emerging markets.
Ravi has done pioneering work on the strategies of multinationals from emerging markets, and how Western multinationals should respond to these new rivals. He has published six books in this area, including three with Cambridge University Press. His article on “reverse innovation” with Vijay Govindarajan (VG) won the 2012 EBS prize for Best Article on Innovation Management, and was the most downloaded article published in Global Strategy Journal. In 2017, it was won the inaugural prize for the Best Article published in that journal. Related work on healthcare appeared as “Delivering World-Class Healthcare Affordably,” in Harvard Business Rev. (Nov 2013).
Ramamurti has published several articles in leading academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science, and also in practitioner journals, such as California Management Review and Harvard Business Review.
His consulting clients have included the American College of Healthcare Executives, ADL Inc., Bosch, Cognex, EG&G, EMC, General Electric, KPMG International, Albert Einstein Hospital, Inst. for Healthcare Improvement, Ivey Center for Health Research, Lab Products Assn., Lloyd’s, Nielsen, Petrobras, Praxair, Reutgers, SK Group, SAIL India, Tata Group, Thermo Fisher, Wipro, etc.
He is a frequent keynote speaker in academic and practitioner meetings and is quoted regularly in the business press.