“I cannot change the world just so it’s convenient for me,” President and Dean of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Jikyeong Kang said when asked about facing adversities. “I’m a person who focuses on the positive—on what I have rather than what I don’t.”
Kang emigrated from South Korea to pursue a master’s degree in the United States in 1984. There, she was not only on foreign soil but suddenly thrust