Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Laura Huang, an award-winning Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own—by turning the very challenges and biases that hold us back into advantages.

How do you find a competitive edge when the obstacles feel insurmountable? How do you get people to take you seriously when they...