Professor

Christina Wallace is a globally recognized educator, with experience teaching students ranging from middle school through executives. She’s been invited to guest lecture on entrepreneurship, storytelling, and AI strategy in Taiwan, Beijing, Shenzhen, Belfast, and London.

Founder Lab

Every fall, aspiring founders arrive at HBS ready to build, and then the vortex of Sections, 3-case days, and weekend travel swallows the semester. Founder Lab is the on-ramp to build community and create momentum to fight against that vortex. It runs for eight days in August, right before START, for incoming MBA students who want to spend their two years building something. Students don't need a team or an idea to join. Mornings are a “tour of the gym”, where students learn to use each “machine” safely and effectively: customer discovery, ideation, experimentation, business model design, and storytelling. Afternoons are Open Lab, where students apply those tools to their own idea, or go find one, with support from faculty, alumni founders, and mentors. Along the way, students vibe-code at a full-day hackathon, learn how AI is reshaping business model design, and pitch to a room of people who will become their first collaborators, co-founders, and critics. This is not a spectator sport. Come ready to enter the arena.

Narrative Leadership: What to Say, How to Say It, and Why it Matters More Than Ever

AI can now write your memo, model your market, and summarize your board deck—but it cannot walk into a room and make people believe. In an age of information abundance and attention scarcity, the leaders who win are those who can shape a narrative, command a room, and move people to act. Narrative Leaders treats narrative as both a strategic asset and a performance skill. Through short cases, live coaching, guest practitioners, and on-your-feet workshops, students will begin to build the conceptual frameworks and the embodied confidence to craft and deliver high-stakes narratives across every context that matters: investors, customers, talent, teams, regulators, media, and the public.