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- 26 Apr 2024
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Why IBM's Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Was a Lousy Tutor
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
the days before institutionalized tutoring schools, he explains—today a $20 billion industry in Korea. “My father had a strict military background and told me to learn English by reading books,” he recalls. When Kim reported that he could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
and motivating others. She recruited her brothers to tutor students, her Princeton alumni club to paint classrooms, her investment banker friends to help write a budget, and members of the community to organize fundraisers. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
“It’s important for US business leaders to respect the countries where they do business, by appreciating their language and culture. In high school, I learned Spanish; in college, I learned Arabic; and at HBS, I found a tutor to teach me... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
but Ogunlesi always showed up, eventually becoming the sole student in the classroom. “The lecturer was my tutor and I didn’t want him to face an empty classroom,” says Ogunlesi. That level of consideration for others, coupled with raw... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
shepherding them into boarding school and monitoring their development through daily calls and weekend visits. “That was a tough time, but my Harvard ‘family’ made it bearable,” she says. That family included her roommates, her Ec 10 View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
as if I had a private tutor in the room with me,” one student remarked, while others said the tool was not as reliable as they had hoped, causing them to lose trust in its capabilities. Nevertheless, Farronato sees it as an opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
an entrepreneur, executive, and women’s advocate were evident in her teens. The oldest of three children in a devout Jewish family in Chicago, she ran a business tutoring Hebrew to boys preparing for their bar mitzvot, participated in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Advertising (a firm that helps clients reach the $890 billion youth and hip-hop markets); Bad Boy Films; and Daddy’s House Social Programs, which provides tutoring for more than five hundred students in New York and New Jersey. (P.... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way
Be A Leader helps them connect to college tutoring services, provides internship and career planning, and offers monthly check-ins with a college success coordinator all the way to graduation. "The kids we work with are similar to me,"... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
Boston as an analyst at a hedge fund and I was tutoring a cousin remotely in New Orleans. At that point, I became what I call a ‘tiger cousin.’ That remote tutoring over the phone worked out well for her, so... View Details
- 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
- 22 Apr 2019
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Alvarez-Bjelland to Receive Harvard Medal
receive her medal during May’s Commencement Day activities. The Harvard Gazette announcement notes that she was awarded Radcliffe College’s highest undergraduate honor and served as a resident tutor at Kirkland House while earning her... View Details
- 27 May 2021
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Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Awarded Honorary Degree by Harvard
peer-to-peer tutoring resource meant to complement Khan Academy.” Khan spoke to the Bulletin last year as part of a conversation with Senior Lecturer John Kim about the pandemic’s lasting impact on education. View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
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Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
(photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) (photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) Much has happened in the ten years since Sal Khan (MBA 2003) started making short videos to tutor his niece in math, an offhand effort that snowballed into Khan Academy, an online... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Moir Donelson
creating a youth development program in rural Louisiana while serving in the Army or increasing revenues (by $39 million) as an engineer and administrator at Motorola in Texas (where he also tutored students), Donelson has shown great... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in math, using the phone and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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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 Oct 2002
- News
A Change of Life
firm's tutoring company, Score, a $2 million acquisition in 1996, into a $50 million operation in five years, the Times reported (July 14, 2001). In so doing, he caught the eye of an executive search firm that tried to interest him in... View Details