India, Feb. 28 -- French luxury fashion brand Chanel's first-ever Indian-origin CEO Leena Nair said it took 48 hours for her to reach from her home in Maharashtra's Kolhapur to her college in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur.

Nair almost did not go to high school and pursued her engineering degree in a class with 3,000 men and 18 women. During a recent fireside chat at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nair recalled that her father had placed a condition to letting her go to college.

"My father was a big sponsor for my education. He said, 'I will educate you but I can't promise that you will have a career because I don't know if my attitudes are going to change, mindset is going to change. I can't change the world around you, but I will educa...