Platforms and Artificial Intelligence: A Business Model

Ted Ladd is a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Hult International Business School and an instructor at Harvard Division of Continuing Education in Professional and Executive Development and the management program. His teaching and research focus on the design, economics, and strategy of multi-sided platforms, especially when infused with artificial intelligence (AI). He has won 18 Best Teacher of the Program awards at Hult, along with a Fulbright Distinguished Chair award and several grants from the National Science Foundation. He founded, led, or otherwise participated in seven software start-ups; the most recent was acquired by Google to become its Wear OS smartwatch platform. He was a BA triple major at Cornell University and holds an MBA from Wharton, an MA in international economics from Johns Hopkins, a PhD from Case Western, and certificates in horseshoeing and wilderness first aid responder. He and his wife and their dog, The Project, live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.