Ted Ladd

Ted Ladd is a full Professor of Entrepreneurship, former founding Global Dean of Research, former Dean of the San Francisco Campus, and former founding Academic Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration at the Hult International Business School. He is also a Visting Instructor of Platform Entrepreneurship at Harvard University and Stanford University. Previously, he taught at the Copenhagen Business School and the Presidio Graduate School.

 

His research focuses on innovation in general and multi-sided platforms in specific, published in a range of academic and practitioner-focused channels. His most recent book Innovating With Impact is published by the Economist. His teaching tools include The Platform Canvas, the multi-chapter, video-only, constantly updated case about GetMyBoat (the Case Centre's first video-only case), the BoatShare Simulation for multi-sided platforms (the Case Centre's first simulation),  and the SIMM case.

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He was a member of seven different startups in Silicon Valley. A few succeeded; a few tanked. Palm, the maker of the Palm Pilot, enjoyed an IPO. An energy software company was acquired by Underwriters Laboratory (UL). The most recent was acquired by Google to become WearOS.

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He holds a PhD in Management from Case Western, an MBA from Wharton, an MA in economics from Johns Hopkins, and a BA from Cornell.

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He is a frequent speaker at academic and industry-focused conferences, discussing trends at the intersection of technology and business.