Harvard Graduate School of Education (1989; Ed.M.)

An interdisciplinary, self-directed Master's graduate degree built on a focused agenda: How to best create, evaluate, develop and apply world-changing new technologies. Determined that the most difficult problem in new technologies is assuring their success when they're launched, so Abelow switched careers to specialize in that skill, and opened Breakthrough Usability to work with world-leading corporations in this area.

Studies and/or research projects were pursued at:

• Harvard Graduate School of Education: Cognitive research, application of technology in education; running user research evaluations (included research of simulated interactive television).
• Harvard Business School: Adoption and effective use of strategic new technologies by large corporations.
• MIT Sloan School of Business: Development and management of strategic technologies for competitive advantage, and accelerated entrepreneurial development of new technologies.
• Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: Science and technology policy for strategic technologies.
  

Wharton School of Finance (1971; B.Sc.E.)

Marketing major. History of Western Civilization / Philosophy minor (though enjoyed the histories of science and economics/industry the most).

Many Wharton courses were taken on the graduate level, in the MBA program.

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