How Reverse Innovation Could Make More Patients Benefit from More Therapeutics

Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Dr Govindarajan is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49 and is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. Dr Govindarajan is a NYT and WSJ Best Selling Author. His most recent best seller is Three Box Solution. His HBR articles “Engineering Reverse Innovations” and “Stop the Innovation Wars” won McKinsey Awards for the Best Article published in HBR. His HBR articles “How GE Is Disrupting Itself” and “The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention” are HBR all-time Top 50 Best Sellers. Dr Govindarajan was named by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker in the world and received the Breakthrough Innovation Award in 2011. Dr Govindarajan was inducted into Thinkers 50 Management Thinkers Hall of Fame and was given the Distinguished Achievement Award for most contributions to the understanding of innovation in 2019. Dr Govindarajan is the only recipient of Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories from Thinkers 50. Dr Govindarajan has worked with CEOs and top management teams in over 40% of the Fortune 500 companies to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. Dr Govindarajan has been a keynote speaker in the BusinessWeek CEO Forum, HSM World Business Forum, TED, and World Economic Forum at Davos.