Erika O.
Principal, Corporate Strategy @ IBM | Harvard MBA
- Role
- Principal, Corporate Strategy at IBM
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Erika O.
I started my career as a biomedical researcher focused on oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic. The science was compelling, but over time my curiosity extended beyond any single research question.That led me to Analysis Group, where I worked as a consultant and data scientist in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). I spent four years helping biopharma companies make better decisions to improve patient outcomes across oncology, neurology, cardiovascular, metabolic, and rare diseases, coding in SAS, SQL, and R to run advanced analytics on large-scale health data and publishing nine peer-reviewed journal articles along the way.After earning my MBA at Harvard Business School, I joined IBM\'s Corporate Strategy team to go deeper on strategy and technology. Seven years in, I have led strategy across every major business function — product, GTM, sales, marketing, and partnerships — with a deepening focus on agentic AI.AI is already reshaping healthcare in profound ways: how diseases are diagnosed, how treatments are personalized, how care is delivered. I\'m drawn to people and organizations working at that intersection.
Experience
Principal, Corporate Strategy
Sep 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US
IBM\'s Corporate Strategy team sets the strategic direction of the company. I grew from individual contributor to leading project teams, advising senior leadership across business units on the company\'s most pressing strategic problems. My work has spanned IBM\'s technology pillars (AI, hybrid cloud, mainframe, and quantum) across go-to-market and commercial strategy, product strategy, and partnerships. Sample projects include shaping IBM\'s agentic AI GTM strategy; redesigning account planning for IBM\'s top 500 customers; building the IBM-Microsoft joint strategy playbook (alongside Microsoft); designing and piloting a new customer acquisition process; and building IBM\'s core banking and payments practice.
Education
Carleton College
Bachelor of Arts, Biology
2006 — 2010
University of Cambridge
Off Campus Program, Economics
2009 — 2009
Harvard Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2016 — 2018
Skills
- Research
- Data Analysis
- Statistics
- Leadership
- Community Outreach
- International Development
- Healthcare
- Project Management
- Consulting
- Sas
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