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Global strategy and leadership, strategic innovation, strategy execution, strategic controls, strategic innovation in established firms, organizational DNA for rule changers, implementing disruptive strategies, international business
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Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business, and Director, William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. At Tuck, he is the Faculty Director for the Global Leadership 2020 Program. His area of expertise is strategy, with particular emphasis on strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization. Professional credits include: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; and Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students.
Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, Professor Govindarajan was on the faculties of Ohio State University, Harvard Business School, and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India). He has also served as a visiting professor at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the International University of Japan (Urasa, Japan), and Helsinki School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland).
Professor Govindarajan was ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy and organization. One of his papers was recognized as “one of the ten most-often cited articles” in the entire 40-year history of the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. Professor Govindarajan has also received numerous other scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management.
More than 50 articles by Professor Govindarajan on strategy and organization have appeared as book chapters and in journals such as Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Strategic Management Journal; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Decision Sciences; Journal of Business Strategy; Strategy and Business; Business Horizons; and Sloan Management Review. He has published seven books, including Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators — from Idea to Execution (Harvard Business School Press, Fall 2005).
Professor Govindarajan has served as a consultant to various corporations, including Abbott Labs, AT&T, Champion, Kodak, B.F. Goodrich, GTE, Hewlett Packard, IBM, JP Morgan, Motorola, Thomson Corp., PriceWaterhouseCoopers, StoraEnso and Weyerhaeuser. He has been a keynote speaker at Business Week CEO Forum, Economist Intelligence Unit Conference, and Human Resource Planning Society National Conference. He has been extensively written about or quoted in the popular press. During January-February 1998, the global business daily The Financial Times published four of Dr. Govindarajan's co-authored papers in a series on "Mastering Global Business."
Professor Govindarajan received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and was awarded the Robert Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal. He also received his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School where he was included in the Dean's Honor List. Prior to this, Professor Govindarajan received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India. He was awarded the President's Gold Medal for his outstanding performance in obtaining the first rank.
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