Vijay Govindarajan (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. 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.

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.

Chris Trimble is on the faculty at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, with expertise in strategic innovation. He is also the Executive Director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at Tuck. At the Center for Global Leadership's annual CEO Leadership Summit, Professor Trimble leads discussions with 12 CEOs on topics of interest in the areas of strategy and execution. In his consulting work, Professor Trimble coaches corporate leaders as they pursue experimental new businesses.

Professor Trimble also is a developer of simulation-based training programs for executives. These programs help executives prepare for transitions from mature and relatively predictable markets to experimental new businesses, and are often featured in Tuck's executive education programs. One simulation he co-authored, Venture Out!, is available through Harvard Business School Publishing.

Prior to coming to Tuck, Professor Trimble worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, and as a product developer and consultant at High Performance Systems, Inc. He also served in the United States Navy as a submarine officer. He holds an MBA degree with distinction from the Tuck School where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. He also holds a bachelor of science degree with highest distinction in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia.

You can contact Govindarajan and Trimble directly via email.

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