Henry Chesbrough

Henry Chesbrough
Born	1956
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University Stanford Graduate School of Business University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Professor and Author
Organization	Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation University of California, Berkeley Harvard Business School
Known for	Open Innovation
Website	www.openinnovation.net

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.

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.

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

External links

• Henry Chesbrough at Haas School of Business
• Henry Chesbrough at Google Scholar
• Henry Chesbrough at Garwood Center
• Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
• Center for Open Innovation
• Open Innovation Seminar