Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is a distinguished academic, author, consultant, and speaker, recognized as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. VG holds the prestigious Coxe Distinguished Professorship at the Tuck School of Business, a Dartmouth-wide chair representing the highest distinction awarded to Dartmouth faculty. He has also served as a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School, a Faculty Partner at the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49, and a Senior Advisor at Acropolis Advisors.

VG has authored 15 influential books and collaborated with CEOs and top management teams at over 40% of Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Deere, J.P. Morgan Chase, Microsoft, P&G, and Wal-Mart. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric and has delivered keynote addresses at major global conferences like the BusinessWeek CEO Forum, the HSM World Business Forum, and the World Economic Forum at Davos.

VG's accolades include being named the World’s Best B-School Professor by Poets & Quants and a Top Ten B-School professor by Business Week. He was ranked by Forbes among the Top Five most respected executive coaches on strategy. VG is recognized by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker globally and has received the Breakthrough Idea Award and Innovation Award.

He has developed three groundbreaking business concepts: the Three Box Solution, Reverse Innovation, and Fusion Strategy. VG is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and a two-time winner of the McKinsey Award for best articles published in Harvard Business Review. His articles "How GE Is Disrupting Itself" and "The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention" are among HBR's Top 50 all-time bestsellers.

VG has been inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, elected Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for strategy research. He is one of the few academics to publish more than 25 articles in top academic journals and another 25 in leading practitioner journals.

VG's academic journey includes serving on the faculty of Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad). He holds an MBA with distinction and a doctorate from Harvard Business School, where he received the Robert Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal. He also earned a Chartered Accountancy degree in India, achieving the President’s Gold Medal for securing the top national rank.