At your request, I have prepared an informal report about Andrea Jung, who has become a very successful business woman. I was surprised to find out how much I identified with her and found myself wondering how far in my career I would have been had I followed my parents’ advice. Andrea Jung was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her parents moved to Massachusetts after her dad was offered a teaching job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and that’s where she grew up. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants that moved their children with the dream of providing them with a better education. Both her parents are very educated people and they set high standards for Jung and expected her to work hard for what she wanted and to achieve as much as possible without losing sight of her heritage and values. …show more content…
After high school, Jung attended Princeton University and earned a BA degree in English Literature. She decided to take a break from school and hoped to attend law school afterwards, but she enjoyed her job so much that she decided that perhaps that was her