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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
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

HBS Club Flourishes in London

The British have never been known to shrink from a challenge, and the intrepid members of the United Kingdom's HBS Club of London are no exception. When the club was bested by alumni of INSEAD in a winetasting contest last year, club president Mark J.H. Weedon (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Shari P. Hubert

smile talks about her experience tutoring a single mother on welfare as a volunteer in Boston City Hospital's Adult Literacy Program. "This woman was smart, motivated, and capable," recalls Hubert, who met with her student twice a week,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 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
Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 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 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
Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

The Accidental Innovator

Boston, working 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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 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
  • 05 May 2022
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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 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
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services
  • 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
  • 09 Apr 2025
  • News

The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
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