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.
And to be honest, now that I'm looking, I mean this is now probably ten years ago, I consider it my greatest achievement in business and I, at the time it felt very devastating personally, but I think, again, people sort of think you either hit it big or you go completely bankrupt, and the reason wh...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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