Company

New Oriental Education

Type: public
Ticker: EDU · NYSE
Market value: $9B

New Oriental Education is public, listed as EDU on NYSE, in Education and credentials.

What it sells: tutoring, test prep, study abroad.

In the language of this map it serves 3 solutions — Tutoring, Test preparation and Language schools and apps — which between them relieve 3 human frictions.

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Sells

TutoringChildhood
Test preparationAdolescence
Language schools and appsAcross every phase

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

The child must acquire literacy, numeracy, and habits it cannot choose for itselfChildhood
One exam decides too muchAdolescence
Move countriesAcross every phase

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