Three areas of concern for American Universities are rising prices, declining productivity and administrative bloat according to Schumpeter.
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MBA Student Loans – beware!
student loans have now surpassed credit card loans. So please manage them just like you would any other debt. Mint.com has a few suggestions. Go to a college you can afford! Take the core classes from a community college and transfer credits go to a brand name college for the later part
MBA applications: Quality vs. Speed/time
It is essentially highlighting the importance of submitting a high quality and thoughtful application that truly reflects who you are and your desires and ambitions. That is way more important than getting your application in early.
Financial modeling: Modeling time
Recently, we encountered a challenging modeling issue. Output was in seconds and in the time format. Comparing performances and graphing was difficulty. To work around this we converted all the time into seconds using the hour, minute and second feature and then did the analysis using seconds to measure all data points.
Economic Recovery
Timothy F. Geithner has a piece on the status of the economic recovery. Being the secretary of the US treasury, his piece would be the optimistic view of the treasury but still one worth reading. Our economics tutors can assist you with both macro economics and microeconomics if you are looking to understand the economy …
MBAs Measuring Success
Renowned professor and thinker Clayton M. Christensen has written an excellent article on measuring success for the July-August 2010 HBR magazine. He was addressing an HBS class on how to apply some of his work on their personal lives.
MBA tutoring for students in NY!
Today’s NYT has an article on students in NY. It talks about the unique challenges students face studying in NY. One of the challenges that students face is the feeling of being alone. The article quotes Hanna Wolfe as saying “It’s so anonymous,” she said, “that it just feels good to reach out to someone” …
Data, Models and Decisions
We are happy to formally announce the inclusion of Sloan School of Business’ ‘Data, Models and Decisions-15.060 (Fall 2007)’, into the list of OCW programs we tutor.
MBA tutor: Lessons for MBA From a Fishing Village
If you havent read this tale below, you must. Of course, as MBA tutors, most of us at Graduate Tutor are MBAs, CPA or CFAs and have the attitude of the MBA in the story! I spent some time thinking about this story. What do you think about it!? A management consultant, on holiday in …
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Financial risk: Tutoring still needed!?
Much has been written and talked about. Have we learnt our lessons? Or do we still need more financial risk tutoring? I believe we still need more financial risk tutoring. Business schools must make financial risk management an integral part of their MBA programs.