Through the Tuck School's MBA and executive education programs, VG offers cutting-edge ideas for people who are leading organizations and those who are preparing to do so. VG's stimulating, thought-provoking style has helped to make Tuck one of the top business schools in the world. Every year, VG has been named in Business Week's Guide to Best Business Schools as an outstanding teacher. VG offers the most popular second year MBA elective, Implementing Strategy.
VG is the most popular teacher in the Tuck MBA Program. VG has been named in BusinessWeek’s Guide to Best Business Schools as an outstanding teacher. His current courses focus on Implementing Strategy and his research on Global Leadership's research on managing new ventures inside existing corporations.
Implementing Strategy
The central focus of this minicourse is strategy implementation. The importance of the subject matter covered in this course is captured in the widely accepted “truism” that over 90 percent of businesses founder on the rocks of implementation. However laudable strategic intentions may be, if they do not become a reality, they usually are not worth the paper on which they are written. Conversely, high-performing companies excel at execution. This course is about “contemporary execution models”: How to innovate in areas such as organization structure, incentive systems, decision-making autonomy, talent acquisition, and so on. We’ll especially focus on the management models that are pre-requisite for success in the digital era.
Reverse Innovation
Historically, corporations innovated in a rich country like the U.S. and sold those products in a poor country like India. Reverse Innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in a poor country like India and later selling those products in a rich country like the U.S.
This course is designed to ground students in the theory and practice of Reverse Innovation.
Implementing Strategy
The central focus of this minicourse is strategy implementation. The importance of the subject matter covered in this course is captured in the widely accepted “truism” that over 90 percent of businesses founder on the rocks of implementation. However laudable strategic intentions may be, if they do not become a reality, they usually are not worth the paper on which they are written. Conversely, high-performing companies excel at execution. This course is about “contemporary execution models”: How to innovate in areas such as organization structure, incentive systems, decision-making autonomy, talent acquisition, and so on. We’ll especially focus on the management models that are pre-requisite for success in the digital era.
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is an internationally known expert on strategy and innovation. VG, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric, and has worked with CEOs and management teams in more than 25% of Fortune 500 companies—including Boeing, Coca-Cola, FedEx, HP, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Sony and Walmart. He is faculty co-director of Global Leadership.
VG brings his expert knowledge to two edX courses which will introduce you to the Three Box framework, which has the potential to transform the future of any organization that embraces it – whether it’s a large enterprise, a mid-size business, a start up, or a nonprofit organization.