HBR Articles

VG has researched the Three Box Solution, Reverse Innovation, and Fusion Strategy for over 40 years. VG is a two-time winner of the prestigious McKinsey Award for the Best Article published in HBR. His articles have been cited more than 50,000 times. Here is a list of his publications in Harvard Business Review that are closely related to Three Box Solution, Reverse Innovation, and Fusion Strategy.

BECOMING A BETTER CORPORATE CITIZEN

Apr 01, 2020 // Capitalism is under pressure. People all over the world believe CEOs manage companies for the short term because of a single-minded focus on shareholders. To address these issues, academics, think tanks, corporate leaders, and NGOs have started talking about how to reform the capitalist system so that it works for…
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TRANSFORMING HEALTH CARE FROM THE GROUND UP

Jul 01, 2018 // The U.S. health care system needs reform, but too often experts focus on top-down solutions stemming from federal policy changes. Such efforts alone, however, cannot fix a wasteful and misdirected system.
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3 ENTREPRENEURS WHO MADE IT THEIR MISSION TO LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS

Jul 01, 2018 // 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 these costs quite dramatically over the
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IS THIS THE HOSPITAL THAT WILL FINALLY PUSH THE EXPENSIVE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO INNOVATE?

Jun 01, 2018 // By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control — but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.?
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THE SCARY TRUTH ABOUT CORPORATE SURVIVAL

Dec 01, 2016 // 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.
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PLANNED OPPORTUNISM

May 01, 2016 // Using weak signals to spur innovation.
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ENGINEERING REVERSE INNOVATIONS

Jul 01, 2015 // Winner of the McKinsey Award for Best Harvard Business Review article, 2015
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DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS HEALTH CARE, AFFORDABLY

Nov 01, 2013 // Innovative hospitals in India are pointing the way.
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REVERSE INNOVATION PLAYBOOK

Apr 01, 2012 // Insights from a company that developed products for emerging markets and then brought them back home.
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DESIGNING A $300 HOUSE

Jan 01, 2011 // Use leapfrog innovation to design a $300 house for the poor.
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THE CEO’S ROLE IN BUSINESS MODEL REINVENTION

Jan 01, 2011 // A forward-looking CEO must do three things: Manage the present, selectively forget the past, and create the future.
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STOP THE INNOVATION WARS

Jul 01, 2010 // Tensions between your innovation team and core operations can derail your company’s growth initiatives. Here’s how to end those battles. Winner of the McKinsey Award for Best Harvard Business Review article, 2010
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HOW GE IS DISRUPTING ITSELF

Oct 01, 2009 // For decades, GE has sold modified Western products to emerging markets. Now, to preempt the emerging giants, it’s trying the reverse.
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BUILDING BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESSES WITHIN ESTABLISHED ORGANIZATIONS

May 01, 2005 // Strategic experiments are crucial to long-term growth—but exactly what does it take to get promising ideas out of the incubator and up and running as sustainable new businesses?
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