Navigating Bias in Fundraising with Professor Laura Huang

Dr. Laura Huang’s groundbreaking research identified that during fundraising meetings with VC firms, men were more likely to be asked “promotional questions” and women were more likely to to be asked “preventional questions”, contributing in part to alarming disparities in funding received. Join us for a workshop where you will learn how to identify “prevention” vs “promotion” questions, learn how to flip the script and command control of your pitch meetings.

About Laura Huang

Laura Huang is a Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizational Dynamics and the international best-selling author of EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage. She has held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School, and is currently on the board of Wharton Alumni Angels and NJECC.

Laura’s award-winning research examines interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace, and has been as been featured in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Forbes. She was named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors by Poets & Quants and to the Thinkers 50 Radar list as one of the leading management thinkers in the world.