Henry Chesbrough

Henry William Chesbrough (born 1956) is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the executive director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for coining the term open innovation.^[1]

Biography

Chesbrough holds a BA in Economics from Yale University, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

He taught at the Harvard Business School as an assistant professor and Class of 1961 Fellow from 1997 to 2003. He is currently an adjunct professor and the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2]

He acts as the chairman of the Open Innovation Center - Brazil. His first appearance in Brazil was in 2008, when he did a presentation in the Open Innovation Seminar 2008. He also acts as the chairman of board of advisors for Induct Software and appear in Oslo on the 2011 Oslo Innovation Week

Publications

• 2003. Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. HBS Press.
• 2006. Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape. HBS Press.
• 2006. Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford.
• 2010. Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era. Jossey-Bass.
• 2014. New Frontiers in Open Innovation. Oxford.

References

External links

• Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
• Center for Open Innovation
• Profile at UC Berkeley Haas School
• Profile at Garwood Center
• Open Innovation Seminar
• Publications and Citations