Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Join us for a conversation with Laura Huang

Event Details

Event Type
Eye of the Executive Series
Date & Time
March 3rd @ 8:00AM
Location
RSM Canada: 11 King St. W. #700, Toronto

Laura Huang, is an associate professor at Harvard Business School and was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her award winning research on entrepreneurial intuition, persuasion, and implicit decision-making has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature. Her new book, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, suggests that in life, success hinges not only on working hard and amplifying our strengths, but also on shaping how others see our perceived flaws. We can turn adversity into advantage by harnessing the very stereotypes and qualities that seem like shortcomings and reframing them as assets that work in our favor. By doing so, we can each find and create our own unique “edge.”

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Laura will speak to us about the following topics
How do you lead an organization and find that competitive edge when you feel everyone out there is against you and the company succeeding?
How do you get people to take you seriously when they're predisposed not to? How do you get your executive team to productively engage with each other and yourself?
How do you get recognized for your work and how to work to excel?
Laura Huang
Associate Professor & Corporate Culture Strategist
Harvard Business School
Laura Huang is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants. Her research examines interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. She is the creator of #FindYourEdge, an initiative dedicated to addressing inequality and disadvantage through personal empowerment. Her award-winning research has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature.  
Previously, she held positions in investment banking, consulting, and management, for organizations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson.   
Laura holds an MS and BSE in electrical engineering, both from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Her new book is entitled Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage.

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