Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at IMD in Switzerland, Yu specializes in technological innovation, with a focus on why and how some firms can sustain new growth while others cannot. His award-winning paper, “Leopards sometimes change their spots: How established firms can transform themselves,” argues that as well as being vulnerable to disruption from new start-ups, incumbent companies can also leverage their advantages.

In 2018, he released his first book “Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied”.

Yu received his doctoral degree in management from Harvard Business School. Prior to his doctorate, he worked in the banking industry in Hong Kong.

Yu was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 2019 Innovation Award.

More: imd.org; @howardhyu