Chris Trimble broke into the forefront of executive consciousness with the blockbuster article that led the May 2005 Harvard Business Review, ―Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations.

The article is adapted from Chris’s  2005 book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators – from Idea to Execution. In June 2006, the Wall Street Journal published a Top Ten Recommended Reading list that included Ten Rules alongside Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Blink. Later that year, Strategy & Business magazine recognized Ten Rules as the best strategy book of the year.

The book and article are the result of five years of intensive research, in which Chris charted the adventures of dozens of managers involved in what may be the triple-flip-with-a-quadruple-twist of general management – leading a startup venture inside an established organization.

Chris’s career mixes rigorous academic research with hard-nosed practical experience. His interest in innovation within large organizations developed early in his career, when he was a submarine officer in the United States Navy. He currently is seeing the payoff from his work — its real-world application — as he works shoulder-to-shoulder with innovation leaders in several leading corporations. Chris is on the faculty at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, recently ranked the world’s best MBA program by the Wall Street Journal and Forbes.

Chris is a frequent speaker on the topic of innovation, and has spoken all over the world.

Chris has published in the MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and Across the Board. He has also written for Fast Company and The Financial Times.
Chris is also a Senior Fellow at Katzenbach Partners LLC. He holds an MBA degree with distinction from the Tuck School, and a bachelor of science degree with highest distinction from the University of Virginia.

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