Howard is the LEGO professor of management and innovation in the prestigious IMD business school in Switzerland as well as the director of its signature program, the three-week Advanced Management Program, an executive education course.
In 2015, Yu was selected as one of “The World’s Top 40 Business Professors Under 40,” and in 2018 he appeared on the Thinkers50 Radar list of thirty management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.”
He has delivered customized training programs for leading organizations. His articles have appeared in Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. Howard received his doctoral degree from Harvard Business School. Prior to his beginning his doctorate, he worked in the banking industry in Hong Kong.