Alison Gerlach is a successful entrepreneur and business executive with expertise in and passion for building businesses. After doing extensive research in optimizing the business start-up process, Gerlach went on to build businesses in industries including technology, entertainment services, consumer packaged goods, and professional services. Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, she was a strategic management consultant and an overseas investment banker. In addition to building and growing her current venture, "Allie's Edibles", Gerlach spends a great deal of her time teaching, consulting to both start-up and large corporations, and giving lectures to both business and academic audiences on optimizing the business start-up process. Alison Gerlach earned a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
I think networking has become really challenged for students today, and especially because these students have grown up always having technology to surround themselves by virtual networks that feel supportive of them. The reality is that they're building databases, not so much a supportive network....(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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