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Vijay Govindarajan | |
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 Govindarajan in 2013 | |
| Born | 18 November 1949 Chennai, Tamilnadu, India |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard Business School (MBA, DBA) The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India |
| Occupation(s) | Professor and consultant |
| Known for | Three Box Solution Reverse Innovation |
| Spouse | Kirthi (m. 1980) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Fellow at the Strategic Management Society Two-time winner of the McKinsey award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review |
| Website | www |
Vijay Govindarajan (born 18 November 1949), popularly known as VG, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide chair) at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School. He is a Faculty Partner at the Silicon Valley Incubator Mach49. He worked as General Electric's innovation consultant and professor in residence from 2008 to 2010. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review. VG was inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2019 for his life-long work dedicated to the field of management, strategy, and innovation. VG received Thinkers 50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories: Breakthrough Idea Award in 2011 and Innovation Award in 2019.