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Future-Proof Leadership: Innovation Insights with Dr. Vijay Govindarajan & Charles Good
Feb 27, 2025 // Vijay Govindarajan joins The Good Leadership Podcast to discuss his career background, innovation and creativity, and his Three-Box Solution for innovation.
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How “Finfluencers” Can Create Risk for Your Company
Jan 24, 2025 // Vijay Govindarajan coauthors an article about finfluencers, social media finance influencers who provide advice on topics like personal finance, the risks they pose to companies, and strategies for leaders to minimize these risks. “As younger investors increasingly look to finfluencers for financial guidance, leaders…
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Walmart’s CEO Shares the 10 Books That Shaped His Year
Jan 12, 2025 // Mentions the book How Stella Saved the Farm by Vijay Govindarajan and coauthor as one of Walmart’s CEO’s most impactful books of 2024.
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Innovation: Are You Stuck in an Inertia Default?
Jan 08, 2025 // Mentions the reverse innovation business model, introduced by Vijay Govindarajan, which states that innovations originating in developing countries often spread to developed ones.
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How to Create Products That Grow with Their Users
Dec 18, 2024 // Planned obsolescence has generated reliable revenue streams, but at a devastating cost: mounting environmental waste, eroding customer trust, and missed opportunities for deeper customer relationships.
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How AI Can Make Us More Human, Not Less
Oct 30, 2024 // Vijay Govindarajan coauthors a piece on how organizations can utilize AI and human capabilities—such as storytelling and nonlinear thinking—to maximize impact. “The AI revolution, with all its efficiency and power, may be inevitable. By intentionally cultivating our human strengths, we can create a future where AI and…
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Companies Need a New Approach to Investing This Election Year
Jul 29, 2024 // In the U.S., it’s normal for policy uncertainty to increase before a major election, then decrease once the results are in. In any other election cycle, the predictable increase and decrease in uncertainty offers shrewd managers unique opportunities for operating, investment, and financing decisions.
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Made in India
Jul 23, 2024 // India is emerging as a global manufacturing hub.
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Why Are Companies That Lose Money Still So Successful?
Jun 27, 2024 // In a well-functioning capital market, profits should be the sole criterion for firm survival; that is, firms reporting losses should disappear. Of late, however, loss-making firms are highly sought after by investors — often more than some profitable firms.
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How Managers Can Benefit from Multi-Modal AI Business Companions
Jun 24, 2024 // Business books have long suffered from limitations that reduce their effectiveness in driving real-world application. Consider a CEO who has just finished reading a new business strategy book.
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HBP Education Must-Reads
May 23, 2024 // A themed compilation of some of their most popular articles on the topic of generative AI in the classroom
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What Custom GPTs Unlock for Higher Ed
Dec 07, 2023 // 3 Value-Driving Generative AI Use Cases for Universities Read the entire post on Harvard Business Publishing
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How Should Companies Prepare for Debt-Ceilings Standoffs
Aug 22, 2023 // Since a major realignment of the U.S.’s two-party political system is unlikely, we can expect partisan conflict and the subsequent debt-ceiling standoffs to continue for the foreseeable future.
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Does Your Company Have an India Strategy?
Jun 27, 2023 // The price-to-book ratios of Indian subsidiaries of multinationals far exceeds those of their parent companies. That suggests the subsidiaries have better growth prospects, which makes sense given India’s rapidly growing middle class. Read the rest of the post on Harvard Business Review.
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Recent Technology Layoffs, CMR
Mar 14, 2023 // Are recent technology layoffs a major disruption or a just minor course correction for past excesses?
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