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...Harvard-trained ear, TheFinalClub.org sounds like a Web site to keep students plugged into the Saturday night party scene. Unfortunately for social butterflies—but luckily for everyone else—the site is dedicated to the other side of Harvard: academics...
...seems counter-intuitive for the creator of a Web site devoted to annotating classic works of literature and blogging about popular courses at Harvard to be so opposed to an ostensibly comparable pursuit to his own. Sites like Sparknotes.com—another Harvard alum creation—and Cliffnotes.com have been around for nearly a decade, providing apathetic students a quick and easy 30-minute Idiot’s Guide to not sounding like a moron in class. But those sites are so...high-school...
...This focus on expanding education rather than abridging it is built into the structure of the Web site. Magliozzi notes that reading the blogs and lecture summaries is far from a replacement for lecture attendance and readings. “If you want to pass the class, you can do that,” he says of the scope of the site. “You won’t get an A reading our blog. If you skip all the classes, you’re quite frankly screwed...
...reasonably straight-forward idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
Harvard isn’t the only MBA program seeing a boom in applicants. On the application-editing Web site Accepted.com, Jennifer B. Barba, the assistant director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan, said that the school’s applications had increased by about 30 percent...