Vijay Govindarajan (United States), known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is also the Faculty Director for the Tuck Global Leadership 2020 Program. For two consecutive years, the Wall Street Journal ranked Tuck as the number one business school in the world and the number two school for strategy. 
 
VG’s area of expertise is strategy, with particular emphasis on strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization.  Professional credits include: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy, rated by Forbes; Top Ten Thought Leader in Strategy Coaching, named in Profiles in Coaching; Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students; and Top 50 Non-Resident Indians of the Year, named by NRI World.

Prior to joining the faculty at Tuck, VG was on the faculties of 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).

VG 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 ten most-often cited articles” in the entire 40-year history of the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. VG has also received numerous other scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management.  He has been honored with inclusion in the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame (under the “Honorable Mention” category).  He was invited to deliver the Fifteenth Annual Presidential Lecture at Dartmouth College. 
 
More than 60 articles by VG 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 MIT Sloan Management Review.  He has published six books, including The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass, 2001).

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 programs.  Representative clients include: Boeing, British Telecom, Chubb, Colgate, Corning, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, International Paper, J.P. Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, New York Times, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Sony, and UBS.  He has been a keynote speaker at the Business Week CEO Forum, the Economist Conference, Confederation of Indian Industry Conference, US Chamber of Commerce, and Human Resource Planning Society National Conference.

VG received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and 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, VG received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide.

For additional information about VG and his work with the Center for Global Leadership, please visit the following websites: www.vg-tuck.com and www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/cgl.