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From: Smart Business Indianapolis
Date: 20060201
Author:Simmons, Kathy

As Oliver Wendell Holmes observed that "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."

Idie Kesner, Ph.D. and chair of the MBA program at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has done plenty of mindstretching over the past 25 years. But as successful as she's been, it wasn't her original choice of a career.

"I fully intended to get my degree and join the ranks of Corporate America," Kesner says. "It was only after a professor saw me do a presentation and suggested teaching that I began to consider academia as a career. It's a great job with plenty of ...

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