Henry William Chesbrough (born 1956) is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the

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and Maire Tecnimont Chair of Open Innovation at Luiss. He is known for coining the term

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Biography

Chesbrough holds a BA in

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. He taught at the

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and Class of 1961 Fellow from 1997 to 2003. He is currently an

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and the faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the

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.'' CBS MoneyWatch''
"Berkeley-Haas' Henry Chesbrough on 'Open Innovation'"
November 26, 2008. Retrieved on May 30, 2013. 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 appeared in

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on the 2011 Oslo Innovation Week

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chesbrough, Henry 1956 births Living people American business theorists Haas School of Business faculty Haas School of Business alumni Harvard Business School faculty Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Yale College alumni