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- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
online exercises, and review sessions to engage you further in building your skill set and your confidence. Lastly, SAS (Student & Academic Services) supports students by providing up to five hours of free tutoring (with EC students)... View Details
- 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
- 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
- Profile
Matt Thurmond
While his high school peers may have been mowing lawns or packing grocery bags, Matt Thurmond became a serial entrepreneur. "It was a choice between making $5.15 an hour or starting my own business," he says. As a teenager, Matt started a car-detailing... 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
- Profile
Kelly Carson
many KU students who wanted to improve their second-language skills. My idea was to bring them together to form a mutual partnership." The resulting program became Project Bridge, in which KU students tutor community ESL students in... View Details
- Profile
Eryn Schultz
are you pushing yourself? For me, finance is not a subject I feel comfortable with. [Laughs]. You know, you have a lot of freedom to decide how much effort to apply to a subject. I decided to make the effort: I’m working with a second-year student who is View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
government to create a new educational program that happened also to make new relationships and gain new business. One of the companies gave employees two hours a week to tutor at a school and was influential in raising standards for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
that person has been more than willing to help me learn. On countless occasions in my RC year, I happily traded an hour of financial derivatives tutoring in exchange for an hour of accounting help, and along the way I learned a ton and... View Details
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
were too many restrictions on freedom of expression," says Rawiah, "To be true to your principles was risky." Yet her volunteer work suggested an alternative direction. In high school, Rawiah tutored non-Arabic speaking... 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
- 05 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS
first semester, you tend to know the type of comment someone is about to say when they raise their hand. Aside from classwork, we shared personal stories, helped tutor each other before exams, and held sessions to teach other students... View Details
- Web
Forest L. Reinhardt | About
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, on the Board of Tutors for the Harvard College concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and on the Steering Committee of the HBS-Harvard Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
were in the more difficult subjects. However, in my section, the very people who I assumed would be that stereotype were very willing to give their time and talents to ensure everyone in the class understood the material. They held individual and small group View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community
together through events and programs. The club collaborates with similar clubs across Harvard University and at other business schools. It hosts social events where members can meet and connect, piloted a drop-in tutoring program leading... View Details
- 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
- Profile
John Schupbach
India. Two thirds of the children there would never go to a single day of school; they were destined to back-breaking, low-pay work and a short life expectancy." During the day, John assisted in the medical clinic. In the evenings, he went into the slums to View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 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
- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
I was able to run a sanity check during my first career coaching session with a specialist on immigration policies. As expected, banking was one of the embracing sectors in terms of visa support. The coach also tutored me about the HBS... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
mom was a statistics professor, so a career in academia was always something that I considered. During undergrad, I started doing research and was involved in high school tutoring programs. I loved diving deep into complex problems, and... View Details