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Unilever to adopt “hybrid model” of remote and office for staff post-pandemic

HR Digest

Jope also emphasized that the company was keen to pursue its office model too as working from home resulted in a “slow erosion of social capital” as it prevents colleagues from meeting in person. . Jope highlighted how the pandemic has raised concerns about social responsibility and the environment.

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

The goal here is to set one or few rigid prices. In particular, we propose an architecture for pricing digital goods that is intended to move the exchange between seller and buyer from the transactional to the relational. This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. Reputation.

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

They're entirely price sensitive. At Level 4, you're helping customers build their social capital — that is, helping them to build and expand valuable support groups and communities. Helping customers build social capital may seem far removed from the concerns a competitive business should occupy itself with.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. the conglomerate share price is less than the sum of the values of its constituent businesses), we would argue that the economies from leveraging personal relations with external parties are non-existent in these firms.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Pricing and revenue modeling. PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.