Ted Ladd

Ted Ladd is a Dean and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Hult International Business School, teaching strategy and economics to graduate students in San Francisco. He is also an instructor at Harvard University and the Copenhagen Business School. His research optimizes methods for designing business models for new ventures, and has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and several academic journals and conferences.

He has participated in five high-tech, venture-capital-backed startups, primarily focused on mobile electronics. The most recent, where Ted created an ecosystem of developers, resellers, and technology vendors, was acquired by Google as the foundation of Android Wear, which powers smartwatches and other gadgets in the Internet of Things.

He holds a PhD in management from Case Western Reserve, an MBA in entrepreneurship from Wharton at UPenn, an MA with honors in international economics from SAIS at Johns Hopkins, and a BA cum laude in biology, government, and technical sociology from Cornell.

He sits on several public and private boards, mostly relating to economic development in his home state of Wyoming. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in the Philippines, multiple research grants from the National Science Foundation, and four “Best Professor of the Program” titles over the last two years at Hult.

Ted and his wife, Laura, live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Education

• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School (1996 — 1998)
• Doctor of Management (Ph.D) Case Western Reserve University (2012 — 2015)
• Master of Arts (M.A.) The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) (1996 — 1998)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cornell University (1988 — 1993)
• Certificate Oklahoma School of Horseshoeing (1987 — 1987)

Companies

• Academic Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Hult International Business School (2019)
• Visiting Instructor of Platform Entrepreneurship Harvard University (2017)
• Dean of Research, Research Fellow, and member of the Research Committee Hult International Business School (2016)
• Research Fellow and Affiliate Researcher Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University (2016)
• Dean of San Francisco Campus and Professor of Entrepreneurship Hult International Business School (2014)
• Fulbright Scholar U.S. Department of State (2017 — 2017)
• Visiting Instructor Copenhagen Business School (2014 — 2016)
• Venture Mentor Stanford University (2014 — 2015)
• Core Faculty for Social Entrepreneurship Pinchot Programs at Presidio Graduate School (2009 — 2014)