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Moghadam, Hamid and Olsen, Patricia R.
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FIRST person narrative , *EDUCATION - Abstract
I WAS born in Iran and attended a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 13. At 16, I enrolled in M.I.T. and graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering. Afterward, I went to Stanford business school. I graduated in 1980. My plans were to return home and to work, but the revolution had started. It was clear that because I was modern, Western-educated and secular, I could not be successful there. I was not finding success here, either. The American Embassy employees had been taken hostage and Iran was in the news every day. Also, the United States was in a recession. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008