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The Three Box Solution book

How do you meet the performance requirements of the current business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you foresee a change in your current model before a crisis forces you to abandon it?

Read more about The Three Box Solution.

How Stella Saved the Farm

On March 12, St. Martin's Press will publish How Stella Saved the Farm: A Tale about Innovation. To learn more about how this small book can have a big impact on your organization, please visit www.howstellasavedthefarm.com.

Reverse Innovation released in April 2012

Thinkers 50 Ranking and Award

VG has been ranked number 3 alongside great management thought leaders and has also received the 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award for the $300 House Initiative.

HBR Blog and BusinessWeek Column

Follow my blog on Harvard Business Review and Column on Innovation in BusinessWeek and join the discussion by writing your comments.

“How GE Is Disrupting Itself,” Harvard Business Review, October 2009 (with Jeff Immelt and Chris Trimble)

This article makes three points. First, for multinationals, winning in emerging markets is “not nice to do” but is the very oxygen that will fuel future growth in home markets. Second, the very organizational architecture that has helped multinationals historically can create the traps. Third, multinationals should adopt a new organizational form to develop breakthrough innovations to unlock opportunities in emerging markets.

SMS Fellow

Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) is an honor given to a distinguished group of scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of strategic management. There are currently 44 SMS Fellows. VG was elected an SMS Fellow in the 2009 Annual Conference, where he was a keynote speaker. SMS is the largest and most prestigious association of academics in the strategy field.