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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
a strong collaboration between the Time to Read national program and media and entertainment giant Time Warner, Inc. Time to Read helps local nonprofits such as Chicago's Off the Street Club recruit children, youths, and even adults from disadvantaged areas for View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
Experiencing it, I’ve learned there’s no better way to practice the skills you’ll need after school. HBS also offers plenty of resources, like meetings with tutors and tutorials, to build your base skills so you’re ready to engage in the... 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
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
education across sectors to “Think and Drinks” to discuss key issues in education and cross-school happy hours with the Kennedy and Education schools. There are many other ways to engage with the world of education on campus, including weekly 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
- 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 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
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
available from my own classmates running review sessions, tutoring through Student Services, office hours with professors, et cetera, has been wonderful. I thrived in classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Business and Government... 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
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
"Every Day at HBS is a Gift"
extracurricular endeavors, tutored me in classes, and remember to check in with me multiple times a week no matter how busy we all are or what crazy part of the world we might be in. The only thing I’d change about our friendship(s) is... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 07 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program
they’ll make sure to call on you (even if you’re hand isn’t raised – we call this a “cold call”) to draw you into the discussion. The school also offers tutoring and workshops on class participation. What worked best for me was more... 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
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
what she considered smaller more focused startups, none of which addressed a bigger picture. “I ended up with childcare, senior care, pet care and tutoring because they were my needs,“ Marcelo recalled. In fact, she was very... 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
- 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
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
market. Playlish Assel Amangeldi (EdM 2025), Luis Gaitan (EdM 2025) For billions of English learners, who lack access to real-life practice and meaningful feedback, Playlish offers an AI-powered voice tutor inside a pocket-sized English... View Details