Gifford Pinchot III

Who is Gifford Pinchot III?

Gifford Pinchot III is an American entrepreneur, author and co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. 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 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