Chet A. Huber

Bio

Chester (Chet) Huber was appointed an Executive Fellow of the Harvard Business School after serving on the faculty as a Senior Lecturer for 13 years prior to his retirement in June 2024. His teaching is focused on innovation and disruption, including Professor Clayton Christensen's acclaimed Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course in the MBA program, as well as multiple open enrollment and custom offerings at HBS Executive Education. In addition to teaching, he has advised organizations from start-ups to Fortune 50 enterprises to government agencies on the challenges and opportunities of pursuing disruptive innovation.

Prior to joining the Harvard Business School, Chet spent 37 years at General Motors Corporation, initially in its locomotive business, the Electro-Motive Division in LaGrange, Illinois, and then as part of its OnStar vehicle services business in Detroit, Michigan. At Electro-Motive, Chet held various engineering, operations and commercial positions before becoming responsible for leading all the division's sales, service, and marketing efforts globally.

From locomotives, in 1995 Chet was assigned to lead a study team to evaluate a wireless, location-based services opportunity in the auto industry, and was ultimately selected to lead the start-up effort that became GM's OnStar business. During his fourteen-year tenure as President and CEO, OnStar grew to over six million subscribers, built a market leading brand and intellectual property position, generated revenues in excess of $2 billion, and achieved industry leading profitability. He retired from General Motors in 2009.

Chet received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from General Motors Institute, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a MS in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. He has served on the Board of Directors of General Magic and Sirius XM Satellite Radio, been appointed to Federal Advisory Committees at NASA and the Centers for Disease Control, and holds multiple U.S. patents in the application of wireless technology to vehicle systems. Chet received an Honorary Doctorate degree from Kettering University and was named Honorary Commandant of the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Chet and his wife Barbara have two children and five grandchildren, and reside in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI and Bonita Springs, Fl.