She says that more and more Fortune 500 companies are now hiring international MBA students, not for classic head office roles in the U.S. or Europe, but to run operations in their own home countries.

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Along the way she does all the required reading for her MBA, but through the beveled glass of the padlocked corner office she sees men in blue dress shirts with power ties playing carpet golf and high fiving each other.

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