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American universities

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:47:13 +0000

Schumpeter, at The Economist, has an interesting article on the state of American universities titled “Declining by degree“. He acknowledges that American universities are admired worldwide for a number of reasons including the number of Nobel laureates employed, quantity of citations in academic papers, etc. He however draws comparison with the US auto majors who were once admired and then fell down badly and asks if that could happen to American universities. PMBA tutors please take note

Schumpeter draws from both right and left wing authors on what could be ailing the universities and cites three areas of concern: rising prices, declining productivity and administrative bloat.

Rising prices is one that we all see and can feel. Declining productivity and administrative bloat are not obvious to us but are of concern. If we are to stay in the forefront of education, we must watch out and not get complacent.

PMBA tutors please take note.

MBAs & the Economics of Cows

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:15:11 +0000

We truly believe that MBA programs (good ones) are worth every dollar you spend on them and are easily one of the best masters’ programs out there (for most people). One of the reasons is that an MBA program is very versatile. If you list out all the sectors or functions that students join after their MBA, you will probably list out everything under the sun. An MBA adds value in almost all industries, sectors and roles.

Here is additional evidence why we believe that an MBA is a versatile program. An Economist article on the economics of cows mentions that Dr Galligan, got an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania after originally studying veterinary sciences. He is now teaching veterinary economics. He has also spent time helping Amish farmers in the past! How much more interesting can life get!?

Here is the kicker! Whichever industry or function you are in one of our MBA tutors can tutor you on a subject that is of interest to you! The range of concepts we tutor students in is so wide that between our pool of MBA tutors (finance tutors, economics tutors, statistics tutors, accounting tutors and financial modeling tutor) we will have something that is of interest to you! It may be understanding the economics of a cow, calculating the net present value of an asset, figuring out the return on investment of a new project, building a business plan or a financial model for a business plan, or figuring out the marketing strategy for a new market but one of our MBA tutors can help you learn something interesting. Challenge us on this. Give us a call.

MBA Tutoring Plans & Challenges

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:59 +0000

We have been in the MBA tutoring space for more than 2 years now. Our focus areas and the challenges we face are different as time goes on. To give you a glimpse of what our plans for the year are and the challenges we expect, I post highlights from our most recent annual letter below.

MBA tutoring plans and challenges from GraduateTutor.com’s annual letter

I want to first take this opportunity to wish you a happy New Year and great success in your professional and personal lives in 2010. I have tried to briefly highlight below our focus areas and the challenges that we see for the year ahead as we continue to serve CFA, CPA & MBA students.

As I write our annual team letter, my strongest emotion is one of deep gratitude to each one of you who have been a part of GraduateTutor.com over the last few years. While we have all played instrumental roles in GraduateTutor.com’s success till date, I want to especially thank our tutoring faculty for their commitment and time with us. It is the strength of our tutoring faculty that distinguishes us from a host of other players in the market.

Plans for the year

We want to continue serving students to the best of our ability. We believe that the best way to build our business is to build it one hour and one student at a time. We want all our interactions and activities to reflect this belief.
Recruiting outstanding faculty to our pool of great tutors continues to be an area of focus. We are very selective in who we recruit and so if you know potential candidates, please do let us know.
This year we also want to strengthen our existing university relationships and build new relationships. If you know faculty or administrators, do give us an introduction. We do reward introductions that turn into business with commissions.

Challenges

This year, we have seen an increase in low priced and low quality competition. We expect this to increase in the coming months but will hold fast to our aim to provide high quality tutoring services. Our emphasis is on helping students learn. Our product is really knowledge and understanding which is far more valuable than solutions to questions.
We also see a lot of unethical competition in the form of tutoring services that just provide homework and exam solutions. Once again we want to hold fast to our core values and do not want to do exams or assignments for students. We are well aware that with more universities going in for graded assignments and hybrid approaches to grading, this is a larger challenge and we count on you individually to take calls on what is right given our philosophy and our emphasis on knowledge and understanding.
As we have grown, we are increasingly seeing online fraud. We have enlisted appropriate help and are learning to cope with and counter online fraud.

Senith Mathews, Founder

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:41:38 +0000

Senith Mathews is the founder of GraduateTutor.com. Having seen many MBA classmates struggle with their quantitative subjects and having tutored some of them, Senith saw first-hand the need for high quality tutoring services. About two years ago, he felt technology developments had made it feasible to provide tutoring services online and so began Graduatetutor.com to provide high quality MBA tutoring services. He was pleasantly surprised to see that GraduateTutor.com’s services are being availed of by not just MBA students but also by working professionals, other graduate students and universities. Senith is currently very active in tutor recruitment and student services as he feels that these two functions are the most critical aspect of the GraduateTutor.com experience. He also oversees the marketing and operations team at GraduateTutor.com.

Prior to founding GraduateTutor.com, Senith worked as a management consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) out of their Dallas office, consulting on strategy, operational, private equity, M&A and valuation projects. Senith has over 10 years of professional management experience including leading a non profit performing arts organization and advising multinationals investing in India as part of Arthur Andersen’s Tax and Business advisory division in India.

Senith Mathews is a qualified Chartered Accountant (~CPA) and has a MBA from the Cox School of Business at SMU in Dallas, TX.