Howard Yu

Program Director

Howard Yu is Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation, specializing in technological innovation, strategic transformation and change management.

Howard Yu

Program Director

Howard Yu is Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation, specializing in technological innovation, strategic transformation and change management.

Meet your Program Director

Professor Yu’s research focuses on innovation, 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 one of the “Best 40 under 40” professors, Howard is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes and The New York Times.

This online program is based on Howard’s multi-award winning book LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied.

Among the many industries that Professor Yu has investigated – ranging from healthcare, automobile and heavy machinery to fast-moving consumer goods – he has also traced the evolution of the global PC industry, including the top three motherboard makers and laptop manufacturers worldwide. The resultant paper, titled “Leopards sometimes change their spots: How established firms can transform themselves,” won the prestigious best paper award at the Israel Strategy Conference.

What big consumer brands can do to compete in a digital economy

By Professor Howard H. Yu

No industry is failing faster than retail. A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share…

Beyond copying Apple, here’s how WeChat is unseating the first app store in China

By Professor Howard H. Yu

How WeChat became Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Zynga, Instagram, and Apple Pay all wrapped up in one

Google and Facebook: the real reason they should be broken up is China

By Professor Howard H. Yu

Monopolies are bad for innovation and dismantling them would help the US economy compete

Why Business Leaders Need to Embrace Artificial Intelligence

By Professor Howard H. Yu

The current development of A.I. (artificial intelligence) can be likened to the early years of electricity when it replaced steam power in manufacturing.