Experience Hult: San Francisco

Ted Ladd is dean of research and professor of entrepreneurship at Hult, specializing in the methods used by entrepreneurs to construct successful business models for high-tech start-ups. Ted holds a PhD from Case Western Reserve, an MBA from Wharton, a master’s in international economics from Johns Hopkins. He was the director of ecosystems at WIMM Labs, which pioneered wearable consumer computing devices (i.e. smartwatches) and was subsequently purchased by Google.

Ted is also an instructor at Harvard University. His work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and several academic journals.

Disruption is the name of the game in San Francisco—a forward-thinking city built on networking and entrepreneurial ambition. Study business in a city with a unique corporate culture, an emphasis on technological innovation, and a pioneering attitude toward sustainability. Hult’s San Francisco campus is a former dotcom headquarters in the heart of San Francisco’s vibrant downtown, minutes from the waterfront.

Discover San Francisco’s unique performing arts scene and explore the culture that first put it on the map. A destination for nationalities from all over the world, the creativity and quality of food is renowned and plays a big part in city life, as does fitness and health.