Henry Chesbrough
Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation of Haas School of Business
Henry Chesbrough is the Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He teaches in the Management of Technology Program at Haas, which is a joint program with Berkeley’s graduate College of Engineering. 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. Chesbrough's books "Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology" and "Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape" looked at the ways that businesses were adapting to and benefitting from open innovation methodologies. His upcoming book, "Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era", focuses on the services industry.
Blog Posts by Henry Chesbrough
Nokia's Real Problem: The Commodity Trap
Last week, Nokia's new CEO Steven Elop wrote a scathing memo to his team at Nokia, describing the company's declining market position in mobile phones as a "burning platform". Such direct and blunt language is unusual in most corporate settings, and shows how seriously Elop views Nokia's troubles.
MIX Session with Henry Chesbrough
Listen to Henry Chesbrough's presentation and conversation with the MIX's Gary Hamel and Polly LaBarre. Henry offers:
- A preview of his new book: Open Services Innovation
- An exploration of what "open" really means
- Examples of open business models and examples of progressive open innovation from every realm
- A look at the leadership mindset and practices that serve open innovation
You can find the full audio and slideshow from the MIX Session on our partner site, opensource.com.
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Henry Chesbrough: How do you manage in an open environment?
MIX Maverick Henry Chesbrough discusses what it means to be open and how to develop a management style that encourages people to work with you.
Henry Chesbrough: How do you manage in an open environment?
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MIX Maverick Henry Chesbrough discusses what it means to be open and how to develop a management style that encourages people to work with you.
Henry Chesbrough: The dimensions of openness
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MIX Maverick Henry Chesbrough discusses the different taxonomies of open innovation, including the variations in scale and desired results.
Henry Chesbrough: Tackling the barriers to openness
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MIX Maverick Henry Chesbrough says that if knowledge is widely distributed in a company, it's very difficult to filter and constrain that through a rigid hierarchy.
