Howard Yu
| Howard Yu | |
|---|---|
 Howard Yu during a presentation.jpg Howard Yu in 2022 | |
| Born | Hong Kong |
| 💼 Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Future Readiness Indicator |
| 🌐 Website | howardyu |
Howard Yu is a Hong Kong-born academic and author who is the LEGO professor of management and innovation at IMD Business School, where he is also the director of Advanced Management Program (AMP) and Future Readiness Strategy (FRS) open program of IMD.[1] He is also the director of Advanced Management Program (AMP) and Future Readiness Strategy (FRS) open program of IMD.[2][3]
Yu is the author of the book, Leap and was the recipient of the Thinkers50 Strategy Award in 2023.[4]
Early life and education
Yu was born in Hong Kong. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Hong Kong in 2001. Before pursuing his doctorate, Yu worked in the banking industry in Hong Kong.[3] He earned a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in general management from Harvard Business School in 2011.[3] His doctoral research was supervised by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, and it focused on disruptive innovation.[5][6]
Academic career
Yu joined the faculty of IMD Business School in 2011. In 2017, Yu was appointed director of the Advanced Management Program, and he co-directs the Strategy for Future Readiness program alongside the Future-Ready Enterprise initiative.[3]
In 2020, Yu became the director of the IMD Center for Future Readiness, which was established with the help of The LEGO Group.[3]
In 2021, Yu led the development of the Future Readiness Indicator, a rule-based methodology that uses publicly available data to assess organizational resilience.[7][8]
In May 2025, MIT Sloan Executive Education and IMD jointly launched the Future Ready Enterprise Academy, a two-module executive education program delivered at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts and at IMD in Singapore. Yu serves as faculty for the program alongside IMD colleague Mark Greeven.[9][10]
As of 2026, Howard is the LEGO professor of management and innovation at the IMD Business School.[11]
Writing
In 2018, Yu published Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, which received a Gold Medal at the 2019 Axiom Business Book Awards[12] and was named among the best business books of the year by Inc. and Strategy+Business.[13][14] The book was published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It was also selected as an FT Business Book of the Month in June 2018. Leap has been translated into eight languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Russian.[15]
Yu is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review,[16] MIT Sloan Management Review,[17] Channel News Asia,[18] Inc.com[19] and Forbes.[20] In 2022, Yu co-authored the Harvard Business Review article "What Makes a Company 'Future Ready'?", which set out a framework for assessing large companies on adaptability, internal capabilities, and their ability to find new sources of growth.[21]
Research
His research focuses on the dynamics of innovation and sustainable growth, specifically examining how organizations build capabilities to navigate technological disruption and commoditization. A central theme of his scholarship is the "leap" strategy, which details how firms can jump to new knowledge frontiers to maintain a competitive advantage over imitators.[22][23]
His recent work includes Future Readiness Indicators for several industries to gauge industry incumbents' preparedness.[7][24][25]
Bibliography
- Yu, Howard H.; Shih, Willy C. (2018). Taiwan's PC Industry, 1976–2010: The Evolution of Organizational Capabilities
- Yu, Howard (2018). Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can be Copied
- Yu, Howard (2018). Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1610397609.
Honors and awards
Yu is recipient of the Thinkers50 Strategy Award in 2023 and the 2015 Poets & Quants "Top 40 Business Professors Under 40" ranking.[22] He was also included in the Thinkers50 Ranking of the world’s top management thinkers in both 2023 and 2025.[26] He has also received multiple EFMD Gold Awards and Case Centre accolades for his research on digital transformation and organizational development.[27]
References
- ↑ "Howard Yu, a professor with a profound message for educators". Australian Financial Review. July 8, 2018.
- ↑ "How Companies Can 'Leap' Ahead of their Competition". August 2, 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Howard Yu". www.imd.org.
- ↑ Schachter, Harvey (June 21, 2018). "Why fruitless debates occur over, and over … and over again" – via The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ Geller, Laura W. "Howard Yu Disrupts Disruptive Innovation". Strategy+Business.
- ↑ Carter, Andrea (April 17, 2015). "2015 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Howard Yu, IMD Business School".
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Warner, Kelsey (December 15, 2021). "How future-proof are Apple, Twitter and Spotify? Not very, researchers find". The National.
- ↑ "Using creativity to foil copycats". Business Times.
- ↑ "The Future Ready Leadership Academy". MIT Sloan Executive Education.
- ↑ "Future-Ready Enterprise Program | IMD Business School".
- ↑ "Why fruitless debates occur over, and over … and over again". The Globe and Mail. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
- ↑ Roberts, Allison (October 31, 2019). "2019 Medalists".
- ↑ Lancefield, David. "Best Business Books 2018: Strategy". Strategy+Business.
- ↑ "Inc.'s Best Strategy Books of 2018".
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/07180750-64e5-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff
- ↑ Yu, Howard; Shan, Jialu; Boutalikakis, Angelo; Tempel, Lawrence; Balian, Zuriati (March 21, 2022). "What Makes a Company "Future Ready"?" – via hbr.org.
- ↑ Meister, Howard Yu and Alyson. "How Future Thinking Can Derail Your Company's Present". MIT Sloan Management Review.
- ↑ "Howard Yu". CNA.
- ↑ "Howard Yu". Inc.com.
- ↑ "Howard Yu - Howard H. Yu". Forbes.
- ↑ Yu, Howard; Shan, Jialu; Boutalikakis, Angelo; Tempel, Lawrence; Balian, Zuriati (March 21, 2022). "What Makes a Company "Future Ready"?" – via hbr.org.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Geller, Laura W. "Howard Yu Disrupts Disruptive Innovation". Strategy+business.
- ↑ "How Companies Can 'Leap' Ahead of their Competition". August 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Tesla most 'future-ready' carmaker, China's BYD rising: Report". Aljazeera.
- ↑ Lun, Tan Nai (December 15, 2021). "Tesla, Lululemon, Mastercard among top future-ready companies on aggressiveness, digitisation: IMD". The Business Times.
- ↑ "Announcing the New Thinkers50 Ranking and Distinguished Achievement Awards 2025 - Thinkers50".
- ↑ "Howard Yu - IMD business school for management and leadership courses". July 7, 2022.
External links
- Howard Yu, IMD Business School for Management and Leadership, Professor of Management and Innovation
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