How to Be Awesome at Your Job3 Feb 2020

542: How to Turn Your Adversity into Advantage with Laura Huang

Harvard professor and author Laura Huang shares how to build your edge and be perceived positively.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Why the myth of hard work is so dangerous.

2) How unfair perceptions can quietly limit your career–and what to do about it.

3) A formula to turn embarrassment and bitterness into enrichment.

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— ABOUT LAURA —

Laura Huang is a professor at Harvard Business School, who specializes in studying interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. Her research has been featured in several publications like the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature. She was also named as one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants.

Laura has also previously held positions in investment banking, consulting, and management in several companies such as Standard Chartered bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson. She received her MS and BSE in electrical engineering from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine.

• Book: “Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage”

• Facebook: Laura Huang

• Instagram: @laurahuang

• LinkedIn: Laura Huang

• Twitter: @LauraHuangLA

• Website: LauraHuang.net

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

• Book: “Girl in Translation" by Jean Kwok

• Book: “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Book: “When the Legends Die: The Timeless Coming-of-Age Story about a Native American Boy Caught Between Two Worlds” by Hal Borland

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