Professional Biography
Laura Huang teaches the course on Entrepreneurship in Education for the Penn GSE Education Entrepreneurship master’s program. She is the Associate Dean of Executive Education at Northeastern University and previously served as an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, she was an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Huang’s research examines early-stage entrepreneurship, and the role of interpersonal relationships and implicit factors in the investment decisions of financiers such as angel investors and VCs. Her work studies the subtle signals and cues that often impact the behavioral perceptions of investors, which can lead to implicit bias in the investing process.
Her research has been published in several academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has also been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Nature. She has won a number of awards for her research, and was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 by Poets & Quants.
