Carlos Osorio is a professor of innovation with joint appointments at the Schools of Business and Engineering at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), where he leads the university’s Innovation Futures Initiative, and the Business School’s Center for Business Innovation.

His research and teaching focus on innovation processes and methods for building innovation capabilities in risky, uncertain, and complex environments. His work emphasizes (i) understanding the processes, methods, and techniques used by the world’s most innovative teams, (ii) experimenting with practical approaches to enable learning of these processes, and (iii) synthesizing and developing new methods for training autonomous, high-performance innovation teams.

Carlos has served as an International Faculty Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, and a Visiting Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Innovation at Deusto Business School (Spain), a Guest Lecturer at Singularity University (US), and an External Associate Member of the Lemelson-MIT Program on Education for Invention. Additional visiting faculty appointments include the Baltic Management Institute (Lithuania), Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), and Amsterdam Business School.

From 2007 to 2017, he was an associate professor and founding director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) in Chile, where he launched Latin America’s first Master’s in Innovation and led the program to a global top-three ranking by Innovation Management (Sweden).

Since 2013, Carlos has delivered action learning workshops and led action research experiments with more than 10,000 practitioners across 20 countries. He co-authored the “Methods for Enabling Innovation Learning” approach, which won the 2015 Wharton QS Reimagine Education Award for Best Innovation in Teaching Delivery. In 2014, AACSB and BizEd Magazine (UK) recognized him as one of the world’s four leading faculty in enabling innovation learning and building autonomous innovation teams.

Carlos has advised governments and worked with companies on innovation strategy, processes, and culture, including several Fortune 100 firms. His industry experience spans pharmaceuticals, insurance, energy, telecommunications, forestry, logistics, banking, fine wines, and mining. He has been an invited speaker at universities, companies, and multilateral organizations across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including the Academy of Management, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, Google, Microsoft, Aon, Abbott Laboratories, eMerge Americas Conference, LATAM Airlines, Markle Foundation, Oxford Internet Institute, Movistar, Bancolombia, and Familia Group, among others.

Carlos holds a PhD in Technology, Management, and Policy and an MS in Technology and Policy from MIT’s Engineering Systems Division, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Chile. He has also received Fulbright and Marie Curie fellowships. Carlos is fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.