Faculty
Shari Loessberg is a Senior Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in established and emerging markets. She has particular experience in emerging market venture capital fund formation, entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and the evolving issues and standards of corporate governance in the United States and abroad. She has served on and led a number of public, private and non-profit boards, and is active in a number of educational programs on board education globally.
At MIT, Shari Loessberg focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystem acceleration as a faculty member of the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, with a primary interest around increasing access to capital. She is also a faculty director of the MIT Sloan Women on Boards program, focused on increasing women serving and succeeding on major corporate boards in Latin America, as well as the faculty director for the Endeavor-MIT entrepreneurial leader immersion program. Her teaching focuses on increasing student engagement with and learning from emerging and frontier market startups, scaleups, and ecosystems globally, as well as engaging science and engineering students with venture capital and other funding sources in entrepreneurship.
Shari Loessberg holds an AB from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Texas.
Chicken is one of the most popular options in Indonesia’s meat industry, valued at $17.5 billion and growing. It’s an affordable, widely available source of protein, as well as a promising market with plenty of room for growth. However, pricing is extremely volatile, as there is no agreed-upon benchmark pricing. Sellers negotiate daily, and prices fluctuate widely based on the city, feed prices, chicken weight class, and other factors. To better predict pricing fluctuations, Chickin Indonesia tasked a team of MIT Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) students with creating a Live Bird Price Engine. The students were eager to take on the challenge.
"You have to understand what they care about and what they invest in and how they trade that off against how much return they're expecting."
