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Vijay Govindarajan, Ph.D.
Dr.
Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of
International Business at the Tuck School and founding director
of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty
co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck's executive
education program that focuses on global management and is taught
on three continents.
Professor Govindarajan's area of expertise is strategy, with
particular emphasis on strategic innovation, industry
transformation, and global strategy and organization. For two
consecutive years, The Wall Street Journal survey of MBA
recruiters ranked Tuck the number one business school in the
world and the number two school for strategy.
Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, Dr. Govindarajan was a
faculty member at The Ohio State University and the Indian
Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India). He has also served as
a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, 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 10 most-often cited articles" in the
entire 40-year history of the prestigious Academy of Management
Journal. Professor Govindarajan has received numerous other
scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award
in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management.
His professional credits include: Outstanding Faculty, named by
Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; "Top Ten
Business School Professors in Corporate Executive Education,"
named by Business Week; Outstanding Teacher of the Year,
voted by MBA students. He was named among the Top 50 Non-Resident
Indians of the Year in January 2002 issue of NRI World,
the lifestyle and business magazine for Indians living abroad.
More than 60 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 six books, including the
co-authored book, The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass,
2001).
Professor Govindarajan has served as a consultant to various
global corporations, including Abbott Labs, AT&T, B.F. Goodrich,
GTE, Hewlett Packard, IBM, International Paper, Johnson &
Johnson, JP Morgan, Kodak, Motorola, The New York Times Company,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Sony, StoraEnso, Thomson Corporation, UBS,
and Weyerhaeuser. He has been a keynote speaker at the
Business Week CEO Forum, the Economist Conference,
Confederation of Indian Industry Conference, and Human Resource
Planning Society National Conference.
Professor Govindarajan received his doctorate from the Harvard
Business School, where he 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, he received his
Chartered Accountancy degree in India,
where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal for obtaining the
first rank nationwide
Web sites:
www.vg-tuck.com and
www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/cgl
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