Henry Chesbrough is Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Previously, he was an assistant professor of business administration, and the Class of 1961 Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California-Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford University, and a BA from Yale University, summa cum laude.His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. He is known as “the father of open innovation”, due to his book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). His second book, Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), extends his analysis of innovation to business models, intellectual property management, and markets for innovation. It was named one of the ten best books on innovation in 2006 by BusinessWeek, and is being translated into six languages. His most recent book, Open Services Innovation (Jossey Bass, 2011) analyses open innovation in services’ contexts. It was favorably reviewed in The Economist, and is being translated into several languages

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.