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	Henry Chesbrough Adjunct Professor Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation Center for Open Innovation 510-643-2067 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30-5 p.m., F402 Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required) LinkedIn Profile

Education

BA, Economics, Yale University, Summa Cum Laude
MBA, Stanford University, with Highest Honors
PhD, Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Positions Held

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

External Service and Assignments

Academy of Management - BPS, OMT, TIM Divisions
Ad hoc reviewer, California Management Review, Research Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Industrial and Corporate Change
Board member, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management

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 32, no. 4 (2003): 659-678.
“The Governance and Performance of Xerox’s Technology Spinoff Companies." Research Policy 32, no. 3 (2003): 403-421.
“Graceful Exits and Foregone Opportunities: Xerox’s Management of its Technology Spinoff Organizations." Business History Review 76, no. 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 11, no. 3 (2002): 529-555.
"The Differing Organizational Impact of Technological Change: A Comparative Theory of National Institutional Factors." Industrial and Corporate Change 8, no. 3 (1999): 447-485.

Teaching

Managing Innovation, MBA 290I
Introduction to the Management of Technology, MBA 290A

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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