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How to Flip Racial or Gender Bias to Your Advantage – with Laura Huang

May 18, 2021 • Bonnie St John

Season 1, Episode 5

The path for multicultural leaders to climb the corporate ladder is very different today than it was for leaders in the past. To create opportunities for growth in your career, you may need to take a counterintuitive approach to finding your edge. In this episode of Straight Up, Laura Huang talks about how she was able to shift from getting “kicked out of Elon Musk’s office” into forming a business relationship with him. Laura also shares her expertise on how to use your unique personality and skillset to find your edge.

Laura Huang is a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. She has spent her academic career studying interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. Her research has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature. Laura was named one of the “40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40” by Poets & Quants.