Vijay Govindarajan

Advisory Board Member

Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and Director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is also the Faculty Co-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 nation.

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 ten most-often cited articles” in the entire 40-year history of the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. Professor Govindarajan has also received numerous other scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management.

Professor Govindarajan 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, Professor Govindarajan received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide.