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Sheena Iyengar: 'You Had to Get on Your Own Two Feet'

NEW YORK, September 26, 2014 — Sheena Iyengar, Columbia Business School professor and author of The Art of Choosing, describes how her grandmother's and mother's belief in higher education, which was radical at that time in India, shaped her path in life. (9 min., 13 sec.)

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