Full Name
Laura Huang
Job Title
Author and Harvard Business School Professor
Speaker Bio
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An award-winning Harvard Business School professor, Laura Huang has spent her academic career studying interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. She is the author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, an insightful and deeply-researched book on how to turn our strengths and weaknesses into a competitive advantage. Laura's research has also been featured in publications such as the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature, and she was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants.

Previously, Laura held positions in investment banking, consulting, and management, for organizations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson. She received an MS and BSE in electrical engineering, both from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine.
Laura Huang