Build-A-Bear’s CEO started her career working at a McDonald’s drive-thru. Now she leads a $486 million toy empire

Build-A-Bear’s CEO started her career working at a McDonald’s drive-thru. Now she leads a $486 million toy empire

Your local McDonald’s could be an incubator for the next generation of C-suite executives.  Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos famously credits his teenage experience flipping burgers as a short-order line cook in the 1980s with instilling many of the management lessons he’s still serving up across his businesses today.  He’s not alone. From former Vice President Kamala Harris to playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda to pop icon Pink, an estimated on…