LinkedIn Influencer Carla Harris has been called one of the most powerful women and Black executives on Wall Street and in corporate America. She began her finance career as an associate, and worked her way up the ranks at Morgan Stanley where she has spent the past three decades brokering deals, executing IPOs and creating an in-house innovation lab.

Harris says, “I’m negatively motivated. And when you tell me I can’t do something, I’m all over it.” Senior News Editor Maya Pope-Chappell interviewed the vice chairman and managing director about why she decided to pursue finance, her early career on Wall Street and mistakes she made along the way.

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