What to do if your online professor is not a good teacher!

What we at GraduateTutor.com do is pretty clear to most people – we provide live online tutoring to MBA students around the country. But we still get the question – who are your customers?! We have outlined who are our customers in a full post here. A section of our customers are smart students who [...]

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Will we finally get cheaper text books?

The DOJ has sued Apple and 5 other publishers accusing them of colluding to increase the prices of ebooks. Read more in the WSJ and the Huffington Post.  While the case is about ebooks in general, we are hoping that it will eventually spill over into text books too.   As MBA tutors, we empathize [...]

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College is worth it? – Some charts to prove it.

For a long time no one ever challenged the value of education. They all of a sudden there were a lot of critics shouting about the draw backs of the cost of education and the debt students are left with and even declaring that its not worth going to college.  Now the trend is reversing [...]

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The only 3 things you need to know for an interview!

George Bradt has an article in the Forbes.  He claims that recruiters agree that the only three things you need to know for an interview are: 1. Can you do the job? 2. Will you love the job? 3. Can we tolerate working with you? It seems simplistic! Overly so. But we as MBA tutors [...]

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Understanding Statistics

Understanding statistics is important for many aspects of life, business, work, careers & research.  The Economist has a nice article that shows the importance of statistics and raw data. Read the full article here. If the raw statistics is wrong, no amount of data analysis or quantitative analysis will be helpful. Nice move by the [...]

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The Facebook IPO & The Zuckerberg tax!

We have had discussions about the Buffet tax. Now comes the Zuckerberg tax! With the Facebook IPO looming large and the quantifying of Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth there has been a lot of discussions on his tax liability. What is sure is that he will pay taxes of about $2 billion on only the portion of [...]

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Sports & Education: Pros and Cons

This is an ongoing debate. One that requires serious study and more empirical studies. One that is very important given the money and time pour society spends on sports.  As CPA, CFA and MBA tutors our focus is on helping students with finance, accounting, statistics, etc but we also want to help them truly evolve as individuals. So [...]

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Yes to Open Source Textbooks

Senate leader Darrell Steinberg’s is proposing funding  to bring digital open source textbooks to California. We say Yes to open source text books. Costs of education have been going up in the country and anything to help students lower the costs of education is a move in the right direction. It will be better for [...]

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Improving learning: Especially Online Learning

GraduateTutor’s mission is simply to ‘Make Learning Easier”.  Currently we do this by provide private tutoring which is one one one to students around the country and other parts of the world. As online learning has exploded, there has been a lot of debate about the quality of learning provided by the hundreds of online [...]

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Learning Online Advances further with more innovation from MIT

MIT has just launched MITx. MITx will be a learning platform that hosts a number of MIT courses online. It will be interactive and free to students from around the world. MITx will also enable students to grade themselves on the subjects too. What is truly innovate IMHO is that they will allow student to show their [...]

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