Laurina Zhang is an Associate Professor in Strategy & Innovation at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. She is interested in the organizational and policy levers that affect innovation and inequality. Her work has examined how technology and information affect innovative, entrepreneurial, and creative outcomes through democratizing access and participation for disadvantaged subgroups.

Her research has been published in journals such as Management Science and the Strategic Management Journal. Her research has received numerous awards, including the Best Dissertation Award at Academy of Management, the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, Questrom’s Shahdadpuri Faculty Research Award, and financial support from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Innovation Policy and the Economics of Digitization working groups. Her work has been featured in various media outlets, such as Forbes, PCMag, and Billboard. She has received teaching recognitions at every institution she has taught, including Poets & Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, Elective Professor of the Year for her course on Corporate Strategy, and Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 Award, which is awarded to 40 faculty at Georgia Tech.

Prior to joining BU, she served on the faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business and Western University’s Ivey Business School. Laurina holds her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Prior to her PhD, Laurina worked at the Bank of Canada.