ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Vijay Govindarajan (VG) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. VG is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide faculty chair) at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a former Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is a Faculty Partner in Mach 49, a Silicon Valley incubator. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to write “How GE Is Disrupting Itself,” the Harvard Business Review article that pioneered the concept of reverse innovation: any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world. HBR picked reverse innovation as one of the “Great Moments in Management” in the last century. VG is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author and a two-time winner of the prestigious McKinsey Award for the best article published in Harvard Business Review. He was named by Thinkers 50 as a Top 3 Management Thinker in the world, received the Breakthrough Innovation Award in 2011, and was inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2019.
VG has been identified as a leading management thinker by influential publications, including Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to the Best Business Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coaches on Strategy, rated by Forbes; Rising Super Star, cited by the Economist; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students.
Before joining the faculty at Tuck, VG was on the faculties of Harvard Business School, INSEAD (Fontainebleau), and the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India).
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, VG was inducted into the Academy of Management Journal’s Hall of Fame and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-cited articles in the entire fifty-year history of the Academy of Management Journal.
VG is a rare faculty member who has published more than twenty articles in top academic journals (Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal ) and more than twenty articles in prestigious practitioner journals, including several best-selling Harvard Business Review articles. He published Reverse Innovation, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller.
VG has worked with CEOs and top management teams in more than 30 percent of the Fortune 500 firms to discuss, challenge, and escalate their thinking about strategy. His clients include Boeing, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Deere, FedEx, GE, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, New York Times, Procter & Gamble, Sony, and Walmart. He has been a keynote speaker in the Business Week CEO Forum, HSM World Business Forum, TED, and World Economic Forum at Davos.
VG received his doctorate from Harvard Business School and was awarded the Robert Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal. He received his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. VG received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India, where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide.
Manish Tangri has been driving strategy and growth initiatives at Intel Corporation for over a decade. At Intel Capital, he leads M&A strategy and execution of strategic transactions—mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, and partnerships—worldwide. His expertise spans such areas as software, security, computer vision, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and data-center technologies, including field-programmable gate arrays and silicon photonics. In his previous role, he was Director of Strategic Business Development at Intel’s Perceptual Computing Group, part of the New Technology Division. One of the early employees (number six) on the Intel Perceptual Computing team, he spent five years doing deals to obtain new capabilities from outside Intel as the team grew to more than seven hundred people at one time. His strategic business development activities exposed him to several verticals: technology (software, services, biometrics, biosensing); security and authentication; health; edutainment; robotics and drones; and hundreds of companies therein. He gained insights into emerging trends by meeting with domain experts at top universities and research centers in the United States and Europe, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Dartmouth College, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Imperial College, ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Previously, he rotated across Intel in various entrepreneurial, functional, and operational roles, such as ecosystem marketing, brand strategy, and new-business strategic planning.
Passionate about innovation, Manish has led division-wide innovation activities in Intel’s PC Client Group, the company’s largest division at the time. He has worked with industry innovation experts such as Sarah Caldicott, great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, and Vijay Govindarajan, Manish’s coauthor and the author of the New York Times best seller Reverse Innovation. Manish’s publications include Harvard Business Review blogs and an out-of-the-box section newspaper article in India’s premier newspaper Times of India (Crest Edition). In the late 2010s, he also led activities to educate Intel’s top executives on methods for accelerating innovation execution and applying the methods across various key initiatives at the company.
Manish is also passionate about teaching. Since 2014, as an adjunct faculty member at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, Manish has cultivated MBA students by teaching them innovation and strategic business development concepts. He currently teaches a four-unit, self-developed course called Accelerating Innovation that also includes three-box concepts. For more than five years, he taught Intel University’s Strengthening Manager Skills course to company managers and was twice recognized as top instructor out of nine thousand. He was not only a regular guest speaker at the Tuck School of Business’s entrepreneurship class but also ran training workshops for Intel’s PC division’s top hundred leaders and top thirty creative individuals.
Previously, Manish spent almost a decade at Microsoft Corporation in four product units in a variety of business contexts—two startups, one turnaround, and one realignment—and received three patent awards. He led the engineering team responsible for www.msn.com across twenty-one global markets. His other experience includes serving as an assistant to CEO role and stints at Eaton Corporation, Chase Doors, Hughes Network Systems, and Analytical Services and Materials. He has an MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.