2006, 5 pages
Interview by: Alistair Craven
Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is a Professor at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has been recognized by BusinessWeek, Forbes, Across the Board, and The London Times as a top thought leader in the field of strategy.
For the past 20 years, VG has been researching and writing about strategy and organization. His publications have been cited more than 1000 times – placing him among the top researchers in the field of strategic management. VG works with CEOs and top management teams in Global Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. He is often called to be the keynote speaker at events, conferences, CEO forums, and leadership development programmes. Representative clients include Boeing, British Telecom, Chubb, Colgate, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
Chris Trimble is also on the faculty at the Tuck School, and has published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and Across the Board.
Trimble has run leadership development programmes at organizations including Motorola, The New York Times Company, Pitney Bowes and British Telecom. In prior roles he co-created, directed, and managed the production of a new multimedia software product, Venture Out!, an educational simulation on entrepreneurship distributed by Harvard Business School Publishing, and created a new week-long training course to support clients’ efforts to incorporate modelling and simulation into their Balanced Scorecard projects.
Both authors recently published Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution, Harvard Business School Press, 2005.
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