Plus Cox offered me autonomy in teaching and very good students in the classroom. British by birth and an engineer by training, she had worked as a technical consultant for 10 years and had owned her own business for three. In 1989 she decided to get an MBA to improve her business skills. Sometime during the two-year program at the University of Warwick, she discovered that she had found her niche. She began her doctoral work the next year.
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I feel so privileged. I'm challenged with this work, surrounded by all these wonderful ideas and all these wonderful areas of learning. She says her goal is to teach her students to look at the big picture. By focusing not only on information technology, but on its larger role in business, from theoretical to the practical, you can see the connections.