Howard Yu

Program Director

Howard Yu is LEGO Chair Professor of Management and Innovation and the Director of IMD’s Center for Future Readiness.

Howard Yu

Program Director

Howard Yu is LEGO Chair Professor of Management and Innovation and the Director of IMD’s Center for Future Readiness.

Meet your Program Director

Howard Yu guides participants through their Future Readiness Strategy learning journey. Insightful and highly energetic, Professor 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, Professor Yu 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.

Howard Yu’s publications

What makes a company “future-ready”?

By Professor Howard Yu

IMD’s Center for Future Readiness analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors.

The metrics that will make your company “future-ready”

By Professor Howard Yu

As the world becomes more uncertain, future readiness is even more important.

Existential battle to become master of the metaverse

By Professor Howard Yu

As tech giants search for the next big thing, who are the likely winners and losers?

Take a tip from Tesla and drive fast into the future

By Professor Howard Yu

COVID-19 is forcing corporations into radical transformation. The Future Readiness Indicator shows who is winning.