Remove Career Remove Govindarajan Remove Innovation
article thumbnail

3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. 2: Create new technology enabled business models: GE’s Jeff Immelt and Dartmouth Professor Govindarajan are back, with lessons on digital transformation. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

article thumbnail

Proposing New Ideas Helps Men More Than Woman At Work

The Horizons Tracker

While we often focus primarily on the generation of new ideas, as Vijay Govindarajan explains in his “three boxes method”, it’s also important to stop doing things that are no longer sensible. The researchers examined both speaking up with new ideas and also things that should be stopped. Gaining status.

Proposal 132
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New Books from the Press for April

Harvard Business Review

Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere. by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing, so the global dynamics of innovation are changing. Written for leaders at every career level, Being Global will inspire readers to develop a truly global mindset.

article thumbnail

HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Which of your activities are actually important to your career, and which merely provide the illusion of progress? Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. by Vijay Govindarajan. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. by Tony Schwartz.

Blog 19
article thumbnail

The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. We've gained a new appreciation for a whole new world of innovation for us to explore. Today, Stephanie A. The $300 House could create the same kind of virtuous cycle.

article thumbnail

Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important. Ideas define our humanity.

article thumbnail

Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business Review

What we found, while collecting case studies for our book Reverse Innovation in Health Care , is that these doctors are not just medical experts; they also have other qualities that make them very effective leaders. ” In this way, compassion fuels innovation. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Further Reading.

Quality 14