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want creativity in their managers.” For all of his travels, and all the vast and formative experience they have brought him, O’Leary believes a sense of the world can be gained without leaving the confines of a college campus in the middle of America—providing it is a campus that fosters a broader understanding of the world. “I encourage my students to travel overseas, but I understand their realities,” he said. “You can develop an international perspective and then put that perspective to work wherever you are. What an international perspective really means is the ability to really see and really understand the ‘other.’
“St. Ambrose creates an atmosphere that exposes students to the notion that they can be change agents,” O’Leary added. “It gets to the issue of question and answer. I think too often educators make the mistake of giving answers to questions that students don’t have. What we strive to do at St. Ambrose is nurture the question in the student’s mind. And by doing so, we give that student the confidence to go out, invest in themselves and make the world a better place.” Learn more about managerial studies and international business at St. Ambrose at sau.edu/scene
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