Gifford Pinchot - Entrepreneurship,
Innovation, Social Responsibility, Sustainability
Gifford Pinchot has been an organic dairy farmer, a blacksmith, an author, an
innovation consultant, software CEO, an angel investor, a school president, and
an author. Together with his wife
Elizabeth Pinchot he has published three
books: the international bestseller
Intrapreneuring:
Why You Don’t Have to Leave the
Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (1985),
The Intelligent
Organization (1994), and
Intrapreneuring in Action - A Handbook for
Business Innovation (1999). In 2008, Executive Excellence named
Pinchot number 32 on the top 100 leadership thinkers. He has a Doctor of Laws
Honoris Causa from the University of Puget Sound. In 2009 he was awarded
the Olympus Lifetime Education Award, and in 2010 he and his wife were named
Purpose Prize fellows. The Pinchots are also co-founders of the
Bainbridge Graduate Institute, now called Pinchot University, the first
graduate school in the United States to offer an MBA in sustainable business.
Gifford Pinchot is the grandson of the first Chief of the United States
Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot.
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http://www.pinchot.com/
