Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Henry Chesbrough

Adjunct Professor
Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation
Institute of Management, Innovation & Organization
Management of Technology Program
1-510-643-2067
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

Ph.D., Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley,1997
MBA, Stanford University, with highest honors, 1983
BA, Yale University, in Economics, summa cum laude, 1979

Positions Held
At Haas since 2003
Adjunct Professor, Haas School, 2005- present
Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation, Institute of Management, Innovation & Organization, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 2003 - present
Assistant Professor and Class of 1961 Fellow, Harvard Business School, 1997-2003
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and other product marketing positions, Plus Development Corporation, an entrepreneurial subsidiary of Quantum Corporation, 1983-1995

External Service and Assignments

Executive Committee member, Technology and Innovation Management, Academy of Management, 1999-2002
Academy of Management - BPS, OMT, TIM Divisions
California Management Review – ad hoc reviewer
Industrial and Corporate Change – ad hoc reviewer
Research Policy – ad hoc reviewer
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization – ad hoc reviewer
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management – board member

Current Research and Interests

Innovation.
Organizing, structuring, and managing internal and external research and development.
Technology-based spinoffs and corporate venture capital.
Managing intellectual property.
Comparative industry evolution in high-technology industries between the US, Japan, and Western Europe.

Selected Papers and Publications

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Harvard Business School Press, 2003
“Environmental Influences upon Firm Entry into New Sub-Markets: Evidence from the Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Industry," Research Policy, vol.32 (4), 2003: 659-678
“The Governance and Performance of Xerox’s Technology Spinoff Companies," Research Policy, vol.32 (3), (2003): 403-421
“Graceful Exits and Foregone Opportunities: Xerox’s Management of its Technology Spinoff Organizations," Business History Review, vol. 76 (4) winter, 2002:803-838
“The Role of the Business Model in Capturing Value from Innovation: Evidence from Xerox Corporation’s Technology Spinoff Companies," with Richard Rosenbloom, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, vol. 11 (3): 529-555
"The Differing Organizational Impact of Technological Change: A Comparative Theory of National Institutional Factors," Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 8:3: 447-485, 1999

Teaching

MBA 290I. Managing Innovation, Fall 2003
MBA 290A. Introduction to the Management of Technology, Spring 2004

Honors and Awards

Named as one of the Scientific American Top 50 Business and Technology leaders for 2003
Book, “Open Innovation” named Best Business Book on Innovation by Strategy and Business magazine in 2003
Received NEDO/METI scholarship for research on spin-offs, March, 2003
Appointed Sasakawa Foundation Research Fellow, Haas School of Business, January 2002, and January 2003
Appointed Class of 1961 Fellow, Harvard Business School, 1999
Awarded Robert Noyce Memorial Fellowship in Industrial Competitiveness from the Intel Foundation, 1995-1997
Awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley, May, 1996

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