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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Can Handshake’s endless college job fair democratize employment? The pandemic has underscored the value of distance learning and remote work and bolstered the case for virtualizing the college-to-career...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Slack’s Brian Elliott: Digital-first elevates output and diversity Slack is a mainstay of remote work. But when Covid-19 hit the company behind the software had to pivot from an in-person orientation to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation Digital platforms for highly skilled freelancers are set to broker more strategic engagements for businesses needing extra capacity and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Beyond family leave: How help with caregiving benefits workers and employers The pandemic underscores US workers’ need for help with caregiving obligations. HBS graduate Lindsay Jurist-Rosner founded B2B...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Why employers need to tune in to worker preferences Sander van’t Noordende, CEO of HR services giant Randstad, on navigating the new normal of talent scarcity, an aging workforce, and AI. Bill Kerr: It’s a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Goodwill’s Steve Preston on how to upcycle career prospects Goodwill Industries International may be synonymous with thrifting but the 120-year-old nonprofit is a major provider of workforce development and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Chike Aguh on government innovation in workforce development How can government boost competitiveness and spur the creation of good jobs while protecting worker rights and promoting equity? The former Chief...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Microsoft’s AI perspective: From chatbots to reengineering the organization AI’s revolutionary potential is best realized incrementally, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
coverage of mutual fund management misdeeds. And part may be in the general ignorance about how funds are managed and investors charged for the services. Whatever the cause, according to William Donoghue,...
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by James Heskett
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Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work
high churn for companies. As companies struggle to fill positions in the post-Covid recovery, they will need to invest in retaining and nurturing talent—especially for the lowest earners who perform the most critical tasks. Read the...
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- December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
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Bulb 2017: Launch
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On August 21, 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb Ltd. (Bulb) launched a new business to supply energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million residential homes with a promise of 100% renewable electricity at affordable prices. By the end of March 2017,...
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Keywords:
Green Energy;
Start-up;
Launch;
Customer Acquisition;
Customer Churn;
Customer Engagement;
Electricity;
Resources;
Growth Strategy;
B-Corp;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurial Journey;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Renewable Energy;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Working Capital;
Product Launch;
Customers;
Growth Management;
Business Plan;
Decision Making;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Bulb 2017: Launch." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-441, December 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Bulb 2015: Foundation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy...
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Keywords:
Green Energy;
Start-up;
Launch;
Customer Acquisition;
Customer Churn;
Customer Engagement;
Electricity;
Resources;
Growth Strategy;
B-Corp;
Entrepreneurial Journey;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Start-ups;
Renewable Energy;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Business Model;
Working Capital;
Customers;
Growth and Development Strategy;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Bulb 2015: Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 719-440, December 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
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Data Science for Managers 1 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Data Science for Managers 1 Course Number 2115 Senior Lecturer Michael Parzen Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits14 Sessions (split between hands-on lab sessions and case discussion sessions)Final ExamQualifies for View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 21 Feb 2024 Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Locations Company Perspectives Consumer Products / Retail Recruiting Strategies Summer...
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- 21 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management
Fund Management, HBS students are motivated to propel the success of those businesses. Meet Bridges Fund Management Founded in 2002, Bridges, the UK-based impact investing fund, is committed to building a more inclusive and sustainable...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
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Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the...
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Rapid Growth Stage;
Green Energy;
Start-up;
Customer Acquisition;
Customer Churn;
Customer Engagement;
Electricity;
Resources;
Growth Strategy;
B-Corp;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurial Journey;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Renewable Energy;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Working Capital;
Customers;
Growth Management;
Finance;
Decision Making;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-442, December 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- June 2014
- Article
Building Brand Knowledge Structures: Elaboration and Interference Effects on the Processing of Sequentially Advertised Brand Benefit Claims
By: Susan E. Heckler, Kevin L. Keller, Michael J. Houston and Jill Avery
Two experiments are reported that examine the effects of an ad campaign designed to link two different benefit claims to a brand. The findings indicated that recall for a subsequently advertised claim depended on the strength of existing brand-benefit links in memory....
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Keywords:
Marketing Communication;
Brand Building;
Brand Management;
Brands;
Advertising;
Consumer Psychology;
Advertising Campaigns;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Strategy;
Advertising Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Heckler, Susan E., Kevin L. Keller, Michael J. Houston, and Jill Avery. "Building Brand Knowledge Structures: Elaboration and Interference Effects on the Processing of Sequentially Advertised Brand Benefit Claims." Journal of Marketing Communications 20, no. 3 (June 2014): 176–196.
- August 2014
- Case
Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
In 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a...
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Keywords:
Crowdsourcing;
Prizes;
Digitization;
Algorithms;
Recommendation Software;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Knowledge Sharing;
Applications and Software;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Lakhani, Karim R., Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar, and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa. "Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)." Harvard Business School Case 615-015, August 2014.
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Cas Coovadia
Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, argues that the government needs proactive policies to support the Black community because of the discrimination it experienced under apartheid.
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