Gifford Pinchot III Artist
Gifford Pinchot III is an American entrepreneur, author and co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, now called Pinchot University. He is credited with inventing the concept of intrapreneurship in a paper that he and his wife, Elizabeth Pinchot, wrote in 1978 titled Intra-Corporate Entrepreneurship while attending Tarrytown School for Entrepreneurs in New York.The Pinchots first book, Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (1985) presented an expansion of the intreaprenuership concept and was noted in mainstream media as "stirring discussion within management."The Pinchots, along with Shermin Severin and Jill Bamburg, founded the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, now called Pinchot University, (BGI, in 2002; the first graduate school in the United States to offer an MBA in sustainable business (see Green MBA).Gifford Pinchot is also the grandson of the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot. The younger Pinchot has been recognized for carrying on his grandfather's work in conservationism.
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| Birth date | December 29, 1942 |
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