Henry Chesbrough

Henry William Chesbrough (born 1956) is an American organizational theorist, known for coining the term open innovation. He is an adjunct professor and the faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Maire Tecnimont Chair of Open Innovation at Luiss. He holds a BA in Economics from Yale University, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a PhD from the Haas School of Business, and he taught at the Harvard Business School as an assistant professor and Class of 1961 Fellow from 1997 to 2003.