I found this cartoon on facebook! I cant give credit to its creator because I dont know who he/she is! (Please email if you have any leads) This cartoon has a lot for us to think about. Yes, our education system is not perfect or far from perfect! But it is still the best …
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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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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 …
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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Get your paper graded by a computer!
Jeffrey R. Young writes about external graders and even computers grading papers and assignment in some universities. The two examples provided are not business schools. Read the full article here. Its very interesting and brings out some great points in support for the practice. I especially agree that it will reduce the grade inflation. See …
Does where you go to b-school matter?
As MBA tutors who prep students for b schools in statistics and math boot camps we get asked a lot of pre MBA questions. One of those ‘Does where you go to b-school matter?’ is almost an age old question. Questions related to this include: How important is the b-school brand name? Are rankings important? …
Business Valuation with Google’s Groupon offer! (part 1)
How did Google arrive at Groupon’s business value. business valuation principles direct us to use either the discounted cash flow method orvaluation multiples method to arrive at business valuations.
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.
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.