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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business

We visited and interviewed farmers in Italy, Germany, and the UK to find out why the platform had bombed. Surprisingly, the interviews did not reveal any unequivocal reasons for why farmers shunned the platform. Their relative value is remarkable across a variety of metrics, such as purchases and frequency of use.

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Top Consulting Firms

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KPMG has made work-life balance a leading attraction in its recruitment efforts. LEK is a very selective firm — it was named one of the Top 25 Hardest Companies to Interview For by Fortune. Cases may be understaffed, creating extra hours and large workloads. LEK operates in an intense, associate-heavy case team structure.

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How Companies Are Using Simulations, Competitions, and Analytics to Hire

Harvard Business

Finally, they assess candidates using loosely structured interviews—which are often not calibrated with later performance, and are rife with opportunities for implicit and explicit bias. At Humana, Korn Ferry used case simulations prior to recommending Bruce Broussard as CEO. Competitions. The winner?

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