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- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
girls’ JV high school basketball team and ran a tutoring program. “I realized I was happier doing that and wanted to be in education full time. That’s what I’m passionate about,” says Agarwal, who took a leap of faith and landed at... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
they tutor and mentor in ‘normal’ conditions,” Grumhaus explains. The robust, hands-on learning assignments that NCCP delivers each week—two in English language arts, two in math, and one “special” activity —augment the district’s remote... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
Khan Academy began in 2004 as a family favor: To help his teenaged cousins understand a few math concepts, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan (MBA 2003) offered after-school math tutoring via phone calls and explainer videos. A decade later,... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
trained to teach in their schools. At Match Education in Boston, CEO Stig Leschly (MBA 1997/JD 1998)—a former HBS lecturer who taught the MBA elective Entrepreneurship in Education Reform—leads an organization that runs charters that use extensive one-on-one View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
tutor in the ABC house in Williamstown, and as a senior, he gained custody of his younger sister, Laura, because his mother could no longer take care of her. The night before graduation, he married his college classmate, Michele Johnson.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
to work one day. The child, Malarkodi Suppamutharwyam, announced her intention to become a cardiologist. Knowing the challenges her family would face pursuing that goal, Ramalingam offered to mentor and tutor her. When it was time for her... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
breakdown in care for them. Post-COVID has expanded into providing tutoring support given the academic loss that was seen in the COVID period, employers have stepped into that in a very significant way. And finally we expanded it most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
members can meet and connect, piloted a drop-in tutoring program leading up to midterm exams, and presents guest speakers. For example, in October 2022, Gorick Ng (MBA 2018) shared insights from his experience as a first-generation... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
accidental, as Khan relates in his TED Talk from 2011. TED Talk: I was an analyst at a hedge fund and I was in Boston and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans remotely. And I started putting the first YouTube videos up, really just as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
homework via phone. Before long, Khan was tutoring 10 or 15 cousins after work. He started writing simple software to give them practice problems and making how-to videos so he could reach more kids efficiently. In 2009, he quit his job... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
cousin Nadia with unit conversion. I said, ‘I’m 100 percent sure you can understand this stuff. How about we get on the phone and I’ll tutor you?’ Pretty soon, I was helping many more cousins.” Lights, camera: “A friend suggested I make... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
needed to be working on solving problems I have a passion for; otherwise, I was going to be useless.” That passion was finding ways to provide young people with the same kind of support he’d received, something he’d done as a volunteer mentor and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
from CEE, Wood knows the benefits of a strong math class—even one that didn't come easily at first. For her, it was an HBS class taught by Howard Raiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics. "He was brilliant," she says. "I was lost for the first four... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
prefer?" Aha! I looked at them. "This wouldn't be about my helping you with the cases, would it?" Each ensuing morning I would show up with the newspapers and tutor them for the day's case discussions. They would treat me like a human... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
peacemaking initiative; and Sarah Hemminger, CEO and Cofounder of Thread.org, which deploys volunteers to serve K-12 students needing meals, transportation, tutoring and others necessities. Their conversations focused on the many ways the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
nationally. Your resources and voice can make a difference, and it’s absolutely possible to fix this. Second, high-quality individual tutoring is a concrete way to help students who have fallen further behind during COVID-19. Look for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
community-oriented initiatives. In April 2001, The Starbucks Foundation committed to a four-year, $1 million partnership with Jumpstart, a program that pairs college-age tutors with at-risk preschoolers who need help improving their... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
impact, Huebner and friends created Minds Matter in 1991. In the first year, the friends tutored a half-dozen students and subsequently sent two to preparatory schools on fully paid scholarships. Convinced of what was possible, Huebner... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was getting crazy.... View Details