Program in Open Innovation

Henry Chesbrough
Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
Executive Director, Program in Open Innovation
Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Occasionally, someone innovates the discipline of innovation. Professor Henry Chesbrough is one of those people. He is the first person to clearly define the new innovation strategy that is restructuring R&D worldwide—open innovation. Open innovation seeks and develops new ideas found outside your own organization and licenses to others your own intellectual property. Education: BA, Economics, Yale University, Summa Cum Laude MBA, Stanford University, with Highest Honors PhD, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
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Solomon Darwin
Associate Director, Program in Open Innovation
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Solomon Darwin is the Associate Director, Program in Open Innovation and the former Executive Director of Financial Reporting and Management, at the Haas School of Business. Prior to joining UC Berkeley he was an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California from 1996 – 2005 . He received his B.A. degree from San Francisco State University, his MBA from Golden Gate University, his MCCP from Harvard University, Graduate School of Business.
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Richard Henderson
Principal Administrative Analyst
& Technology Coordinator
Institute for Business Innovation
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Richard Henderson has served as technology and media coordinator for the Institute for Business Innovation and its constituent centers, including the Center for Open Innovation and the Berkeley Innovation Forum, since 2006. He has over 20 years of experience providing technology development and support services in higher education. He previously served as information technology director for the Haas School of Business and the University of the South (Sewanee).

Anita  Stephens has served as the senior program manager for the Program in Open Innovation since 2008, and the Institute for Business Innovation since 1997, the Center for Open Innovation’s parent organization.  She has over 25 years of experience in conference /event planning and administrative support services.  Ms. Stephens is responsible for securing venues and hotels, negotiating contracts and managing overall logistics.  She also supports several centers and programs in the Institute for Business Innovation.

Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
Executive Director, Program in Open Innovation
Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Occasionally, someone innovates the discipline of innovation. Professor Henry Chesbrough is one of those people. He is the first person to clearly define the new innovation strategy that is restructuring R&D worldwide—open innovation. Open innovation seeks and develops new ideas found outside your own organization and licenses to others your own intellectual property.

In his groundbreaking 2002 book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Chesbrough explains why open innovation makes sense and how to structure your innovation strategy to take advantage of its opportunities. His most recent book, Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Environment, describes how to develop business models that successfully take advantage of the value that open innovation offers. He also has co-edited a book entitled Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, a collection of research on this exciting new approach to R&D.

Henry has a unique background as both a practitioner and a researcher. He spent ten years in senior product planning and strategic marketing positions in Silicon Valley. Equally at home in product marketing and sales, in engineering and technology, and in academic research, his current work brings all these worlds together.

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

Solomon Darwin
Associate Director, Program in Open Innovation
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Solomon Darwin is the Associate Director, Center for Open Innovation and the former Executive Director of Financial Reporting and Management, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He also teaches in the evening MBA and Executive Education Programs. Prior to joining UC Berkeley was he was an Associate Professor at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California from 1996 – 2005. His Visiting Professor teaching assignments include: University of Zurich in Switzerland (spring 2010), Wuhan University in China (summer 2005), EMLyon School of Management in France (summer 2005) and Euro med School of Management in France (summers 1999 - 2004).