Vijay Govindarajan (born 18 November 1949), popularly known as VG, is the Coxe Distinguished Professor (a Dartmouth-wide chair) at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School.
He worked as General Electric's first chief innovation consultant and professor in residence from 2008–10.
He 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.
VG was inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2019 for his life-long work dedicated to the field of management, strategy, and innovation.
VG received Thinkers 50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in two different categories, a rare feat: Breakthrough Idea Award in 2011 and Innovation Award in 2019.