Andy Wu

Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers on growth and innovation strategy in the technology industry. He received the HBS Wyss Award, HBS Williams Award, Poets & Quants 40 Under 40, and Penn Prize in recognition of commitment and excellence in teaching and mentoring. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. 

Professor Wu is a founder, director, investor, or advisor of several technology ventures. He holds several patents across rapid prototyping, medical imaging, robotics, and e-commerce. He and his work have been featured on CNN, CBS News, National Public Radio, Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg.

He received a PhD and MS in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior fellow at the school’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. While at Wharton, he received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. He earned his SB in economics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Burchard Scholar.