Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan is an internationally renowned authority on strategy execution, strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization. He is ranked in the Thinkers 50.

He is the 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. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).

In the 1980s, Vijay surveyed hundreds of executives at Fortune 500 corporations about their varied approaches to executing strategy across business units. In the 1990s, he helped companies that were expanding globally achieve the most effective balance of differentiation and integration among country subsidiaries. Since 2000, he has focused on teaching corporations to build breakthrough businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in their core business.

Vijay currently writes a column for FastCompany.com. His articles have appeared in a multitude of business publications and one of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 40-year history of Academy of Management Journal.

Hi ist ranked in the Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. Recognized as one of today's leading business strategists Vijay Govindarajan helps companies adapt to the global business environment and change the way they look at strategy.

For 25 years, he has been advancing the field of strategy execution and advising senior executives in all industries on how to modify their organizations to achieve their strategic ambitions.

Warm, articulate and naturally funny, Vijay Govindarajan is a highly popular keynote speaker.

He presents in English.