Strategic Resilience in a Disrupted World

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Program Director Howard Yu guides participants through their Strategic Resilience in a Disrupted World learning journey. Insightful and highly-energetic, Professor Howard Yu seeks to show the world how to keep one step ahead of the game in business. His research focuses on disruptive innovation and why and how companies go about producing it.

Shortlisted by Thinkers50 for the Innovation Distinguished Achievement Award, and named by Poets and Quants as one of the “Best 40 under 40” professors, Howard is a contributor to Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes and The New York Times.

He is the author of the award-winning book LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied.

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"Yu’s research exemplifies how management theory is rigorously built and improved. He carefully documents how companies in the past have spotted and seized opportunities for growth." "Yu’s research exemplifies how management theory is rigorously built and improved. He carefully documents how companies in the past have spotted and seized opportunities for growth."
Clayton Christensen Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen was the Kim. B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School Clayton Christensen was the Kim. B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Howard Yu's publications

Understanding the pandemic’s impact through the business trends speed

Surviving a crisis – Why preparation is key to resilience

One way to understand the pandemic’s impact is seeing how it speeds up business trends. These trends are neither seasonal nor cyclical.

What strategies lead to success?

Leading in turbulent times webinar series: Rapid resilience

What are the different strategies that lead to resilience? How have certain companies absorbed the shock, changed and bounced forward in times of crisis?

Western fears of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei

Huawei: Fears in the West are misplaced and could backfire in the long run

Cutting Huawei out of the picture would limit Western access to new, state-of-the art technology, and could create a world split along technological lines.

Report on AI and the future of work

How to make AI transformation more likely to succeed

Too many innovation experts are focusing solely on the nuts and bolts of everyday implementation. They often forget that the underlying technologies – A.I. in this case – never stay constant.

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