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Focus group with an AI twist

Published Summer 2023

With Victor Oh's TactileAI platform, beauty brands can test their products and receive customer insight on a product's fragrance, texture, packaging, and more / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Leslie Silverglide says co-founding MIXT with her husband, David, allowed them to combine their passions for good food and environmental sustainability into a fun business venture.

In 2005, Leslie Silverglide, A&S '02, Engr '02, and her husband, David, A&S '99, co-founded a casual restaurant called MIXT, featuring fresh, locally sourced ingredients in salads, sandwiches, and grain bowls / Johns Hopkins Magazine

A portrait of Yuri Yakubchyk on a light blue background

Entrepreneurial empowerment

Published Fall 2022

Yury Yakubchyk Jr., A&S '13, is all about supporting the next generation of young entrepreneurs / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Risk/Reward

A hyperlocal supply chain

Published Spring 2022

"We want our resellers to be the human Walmarts of their community," says Steven Wongsoredjo, co-founder and CEO of Super, a social commerce program helping to meet demand for affordable goods in Indonesia. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Deepa Gandhi stands next to a display of Dagne Dover handbags

Risk/Reward

Handbags for the long haul

Published Winter 2021

Deepa Gandhi says Dagne Dover stands for more than just handbags. "We are leading a wave of more responsible, intentional brands, which is what consumers care about these days." / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

Handbags for the long haul

Published Jan 7, 2022

Krieger School alum Deepa Gandhi started her career as an equity sales trader before making an unconventional leap from finance to retail and is now co-founder and COO of Dagne Dover, a handbag company