Laura Huang

Laura Huang is a prominent scholar whose work intersects Business & Economics, particularly in entrepreneurship and organizational behavior. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Irvine in 2012, concentrating on Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior. She also holds an MBA from INSEAD (2004–2005), an M.S. in Engineering Management from Duke University (2000–2001), and a B.S.E. in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from Duke University (1996–2000).

Huang's research focuses on entrepreneurship, investor decision-making, micro-foundations of entrepreneurship, perceptions in funding decisions, unconscious bias, and field research methods. Her career includes Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2012–2017) and Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (2018 onward), followed by Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizational Dynamics at Northeastern University. She has garnered major awards such as the Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award (2019), Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship (2016), Heizer Award for Best Dissertation in Entrepreneurship (2013), and Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division (2013). Additional honors include Poets & Quants' 40 Best B-School Professors Under 40 (2016) and the National Academy of Sciences Cozzarelli Prize (2020).

Key publications encompass 'Patient–Physician Gender Concordance and Increased Mortality Among Female Heart Attack Patients' (PNAS, 2018, co-authored with Brad N. Greenwood and Seth Carnahan), revealing higher mortality risks for female patients treated by male physicians; 'We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding' (Academy of Management Journal, 2018, Best Article Award 2019); 'The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk' (Academy of Management Journal, 2018); 'Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship' (Academy of Management Review, 2017); and 'Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-Stage Investor Gut Feel' (Administrative Science Quarterly, 2015, Heizer Award 2013). Her scholarship influences fields by highlighting biases in healthcare outcomes and entrepreneurial funding, promoting equitable decision-making. Huang contributes to editorial boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Academy of Management Journal.