Index
A
- AB InBev
- Accanto Partners
- Accenture
- “Action potential”
- Affleck, Ben
- AFLAC
- Agrawal, Anshul
- Airbnb
- “Alternative work”
- Amazon
- Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems)
- Apple Pay
- Applied Predictive Technologies
- Artisanal freelancers
- AXS TV network
B
- Bain & Company
- See also Big Three
- BCG
- Bezos, Jeff
- Biederman, Rob
- Ben Zlotoff's recollections on getting to know
- helping secure their first Fortune 100 customer
- his “vision for the future of work”
- leading good old-fashioned fun at HourlyNerd
- national speaking tour (2014) to Harvard alumni clubs by
- philosophical approach on changing economic equation by
- securing Series B funding
- sharing his Rent-A-Nerd concept for class project
- views on proposed SaaS
- working on the IPO Day class project
- working to get funding for HourlyNerd
- work/life equation discussion with
- Big Three
- astronomical turnover among the
- consulting disruption and
- consulting services offered by the
- leveraging flexible workforce vs. contracting with
- See also Bain & Company; Boston Consulting Group; McKinsey & Company
- Black, Andrea
- Blum, Nick
- Boston Consulting Group
- See also Big Three
- Boston Globe
- Brady, Tom
- Brin, Sergey
- Brooks Brothers
- Bureau of Labor
- Bureau of Labor Statistics report (2015)
- Business-to-business (B-to-B) model
- Catalant's evolution from B-to-C to
- Catalant's sales philosophy
- Business-to-consumers (B-to-C) model
- Catalant's evolution to B-to-B from
- gig economy innovation of the
- rating system application to the
C
- Catalant platform
- Accomplish More tagline added to
- accountability built into the
- All-In Committee of volunteers at
- listening to customers to improve
- offering a win-win for employee and employer
- positioned as innovative tool and potential partnership
- rating system incorporated into the
- rebuilding into a SaaS
- review feature added to the
- as risk mitigation model
- seeking private equity clients for the
- selling to the Life Sciences sector
- tapping into the new technologies
- trust component of building the
- working to build community of the
- Catalant Technologies (formerly HourlyNerd)
- Boston Globe article on
- company culture importance to
- disruptive transformation of consulting and workplace by
- expanding internationally
- the idea that became
- Key Account Journey of
- making changes including renaming HourlyNerd to
- origins of the
- providing an upside-down work/life equation solution
- sales philosophy of
- Series B funding of
- Series C funding of
- “surprise and delight” pillar of
- “The Thought Leadership Summit” on future of work
- “win with technology” pillar of
- See also Consulting; HourlyNerd (formerly Rent-a-Nerd)
- The caveman freelancer
- CBS
- CEO cultural myth
- Christensen, Clayton M.
- CNBC
- Coke
- Collins, Chris
- The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)
- Company culture
- HourlyNerd (now Catalant) focus on having a positive
- traditional CEO myth of
- typical of many start-ups
- See also Corporations
- Consulting
- the Big Three in
- Catalant's disruptive transformation of traditional
- comparing gig economy to traditional
- corporate annual expenditures on
- difficulties of working in traditional
- innovation disruption and growing gig economy of
- See also Catalant Technologies (formerly HourlyNerd); HourlyNerd (formerly Rent-a-Nerd)
- Consumer packaged goods (CPG)
- Cook, Scott
- Corporations
- annual expenditures on consulting by
- Catalant's disruptive transformation of workforce-access by
- HR (human resources) adjustments to the flexible workforce
- a new mind-set needed for leveraging flexible workforce
- seventeenth century birth of modern-day
- “talent gap” experienced by
- See also Company culture; “The global workforce crisis”
- Costco
- CPG
- CPS Technologies
- Cramer, Jim
- Cray
- Creative Artists Agency
- Cuban, Mark
- Customers
- “action potential” igniting new relationship with
- Catalant's review feature available to
- Catalant's sales philosophy used with their
- Catalant's software for tracking deliverables to
- leveraging a flexible workforce to benefit
- listening to
- private equity
- rebuilding Catalant platform into a SaaS
D
- Damon, Matt
- Dell
- Dell, Michael
- Deloitte's Millennials survey
- Demandware
- “Digital nomad”
- Disruptive innovation
- Catalant's transformation of workforce-access
- cycle of early adopters and spread of
- description of
- gig economy as consulting
- information technology (IT) as a
- new mind-set required for flexible workforce using digital
- overcoming resistance to change and
- See also Technology
- Doris, Bob
- Dorsey, Jack
- Driscoll, Craig
- The Droid Works
- Dutch East India Company
E
- eBay
- Employees. See Talent; Workforce
- Empowerment value proposition
- Engels, Friedrich
- Equinox
- Etsy
- The European Journal of Epidemiology
F
- Facebook
- Family Medical Leave Act
- Feudal system
- Fialkow, David
- Fiverr
- Flexible workforce
- Anshul Agrawal's story on joining the
- Catalant's “The Thought Leadership Summit” on future of
- contracting with Big Three versus leveraging a
- development of the
- GOA report (2015) on contingent jobs taken by
- HR (human resources) adjustments to the
- Kara Yokley's story on joining the
- leveraged to benefit Catalant's customers
- Marisa Goldenberg's story on joining the
- new corporate mind-set needed for leveraging
- as risk mitigation model
- See also “The global workforce crisis”; Talent
- Forbes magazine
- Ford, Henry
- 401(k) plans
- Free Lance Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself (Pink)
- Freelancers
- artisanal
- from the caveman to modern
- as “the global workforce crisis” solution
- GOA report (2015) on contingent jobs taken by
- HR (human resources) management lack with
- Intuit predictions on increase of
- Social Security and Medicare taxes paid by
- See also Talent; Workforce
- Fuller, Joseph
- Future of Work conferences
- The Future of Work (Morgan)
G
- Gardner, Rich
- Gates, Bill
- Geek Squad
- GE Global Innovation
- General Catalyst (GC)
- General Electric (GE)
- George, Andy
- Gerson Lehrmann Group
- GE Ventures
- Gig economy
- comparing traditional consulting to the
- increased responsibilities in the
- as innovation of consulting
- potential to transform the workplace
- seeking HourlyNerd's place in the
- workforce stability challenge of the
- Gilt Groupe
- “The global workforce crisis”
- description of the
- HourlyNerd's freelancer solution to the
- “talent gap” problem of the
- See also Corporations; Flexible workforce
- Goldenberg, Marisa
- Goldman Sachs
- Good Will Hunting (film)
- Goodwin Procter
- Google
- Google Wallet
- Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) report [2015]
- Great Recession (2008)
- Greylock Partners
- Griffin, Pat
H
- Handy
- Harrington, Brynn Thomas
- Harvard Business Review
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Harvard iLab
- Haystack
- Health care benefits
- Helman, Bill
- Highland Capital
- Hiring
- discarding the old model for
- market elegance of HourlyNerd's proposition on
- widespread challenge of retaining and
- XYZ Corporation thought experiment on
- Hoffman, Reid
- HourlyNerd (formerly Rent-a-Nerd)
- bringing up new people to help build
- company culture importance to
- developing their model
- empowerment value proposition of
- focusing on selling and deal maintenance
- getting testimonials and attracting new customers
- making changes including renaming
- market elegance of the proposition used by
- providing solution to traditional consulting
- “recency bias” growing pains of
- redefining how companies engage top talent
- securing investors in
- as solution for “global workforce crisis”
- started as a class project
- See also Catalant Technologies (formerly HourlyNerd); Consulting; Start-ups
- HourlyNerd success stories
- Anshul Agrawal
- Kara Yokley
- Marisa Goldenberg
- HR (human resources) departments
- HubSpot
- Human capital asset
- Hyman, Jennifer
I
- IBM
- Immelt, Jeff
- The Innovator's Dilemma (Christensen)
- Inside Squared
- Instacart
- Instagram
- Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (UCB)
- Intuit
- “IPO Day” (Harvard Business School)
J
- Job market
- “alternative work” of the
- demand/supply imbalance of the
- “the global workforce crisis” and freelancer solution
- McKinsey's Global Institute on future of
- See also Workforce
- Jobs, Steve
- Johnston-Murphy
- Joss & Main
- JotNot Pro
- J.P. Morgan
K
- Kalma, Brian
- Katz, Lawrence
- Kaufman, Micha
- Kayak
- Kellogg's
- Kelly Services
- Key Account Journey (Catalant)
- Kiva Systems (later Amazon Robotics)
- Kneeland, Pat
- Knight, Phil
- Knowledge workers. See Talent
- Kraft, Daniel
- Kraft family
- Kraft, Jonathan
- Krueger, Alan
L
- Life Sciences sector
- LinkedIn
- Listening to customers
- LucasFilms Ltd.
- Lucas, George
- Lyft
M
- Macaitis, Bill
- Maglathlin, Peter
- aversion to risk
- changing economic equation
- manage the financial risks
- summer job
- Managed service providers (MSPs)
- Martin, Marshall
- Marx, Karl
- Mascia, Pat
- Mass Mutual
- McKinsey & Company
- See also Big Three
- McKinsey Global Institute
- Medicare tax (SECA)
- Millennials
- Deloitte's survey on
- demanding human satisfaction from work
- Miller, Joe
- Miramax
- Moore's law
- Morgan, Brian
- Morgan, Jacob
N
- “Nerdy Bucks”
- NetSuites
- Next Jump
- Nova, Dan
- Nylen, John
O
- Obama, Michelle
- Office Space (film)
- Oracle
P
- Paley, Shirley
- PayPal
- Pelaez, Jose
- PepsiCo
- Petitti, Pat
- on asking and listening to customers
- on benefits of rebuilding Catalant's platform
- helping to move to new Fort Point offices
- his alien analysis
- his “nose bags” idea
- on his vision for HourlyNerd
- liberating people from tyranny of work driving
- “mouse turd” prank played by
- respondent's comment on the match concept's success to
- securing Series B funding
- starting the weekly team meetings
- testing interest in a broader enterprise software
- wooing Brian Morgan to HourlyNerds
- working on IPO Day class project
- working to get funding for HourlyNerd
- on the work/life balance
- Pink, Daniel
- Pixar
- Postmates
- PricewaterhouseCoopers studies
- on chief executives' worry over talent availability
- on employee desire for greater control over work
- Private equity firms
- Procter & Gamble
R
- Rating systems
- business-to-consumers (B-to-C) model's application of
- Catalant's effective use of a
- “Recency bias” growing pains
- Rent-a-Nerd. See HourlyNerd (formerly Rent-a-Nerd)
- Rent the Runway
- “Revenge of the Hourly Nerds” blog post (Wang)
- Risk mitigation model
- Risky Business (film)
- Roberge, Mark
S
- SaaS (Software as a Service) platform
- Catalant's development of their own
- Shirley Paley's experience with contracting
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Sauer, Mary
- Seacrest, Ryan
- Self-employed. See Freelancers
- Shah, Semil
- Shark Tank (TV show)
- Silicon Graphics
- Slack and Zendesk
- Snook, Kyle
- Social Security tax (FICA)
- SoulCycle
- Spitzer, Michele
- “Spot market for intellect”
- Square
- Staples
- Starbucks
- The Start-Up of You (Hoffman)
- Start-ups
- company culture of many
- “IPO Day” class project on
- See also HourlyNerd (formerly Rent-a-Nerd)
- “State of the American Workplace” report (2012)
- Stevenson, Bryan
- Stripe
- Subramanian, Vijay
- Sun Microsystems
- “Super-temps”
T
- Talent
- Catalant's disruptive transformation of access to
- freelancer workers as solution for finding
- importance of human capital asset
- PricewaterhouseCoopers study (2016) on worry over available
- traditional consulting challenges for
- widespread challenge of hiring and retaining
- XYZ Corporation thought experiment on hiring
- See also Flexible workforce; Freelancers; Workforce
- “Talent gap”
- TaskRabbit
- Technology
- empowering the future of work
- the flexible workforce and
- how Catalant tapped into the new
- how it has impacted work and the workforce
- See also Disruptive innovation
- Thomas, Maria
- “The Thought Leadership Summit” (Catalant)
- Twitter
U
- Uber
- University of California—Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
- University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School
- Upside-down work/life equation
- U.S. Bureau of Labor
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report (2015)
V
- van Bever, Derek
- Veggie Galaxy (burrito joint)
- Venmo
- Villeneuve, Amy
- VMSs (software)
W
- Walsh, Dave
- Wang, Dina
- Warby Parker
- Welch, Jack
- Williams, Robin
- Work
- fourth Industrial Revolution potential for reinvention of
- how technology is impacting
- millennials' demand for more satisfaction from
- providing a solution to the upside-down work/life equation
- a quick history of
- Rob's “vision for the future of”
- technologies empowering the future of
- Workforce
- Catalant's disruptive transformation of access to
- characteristics of the gig economy
- development of the flexible
- GOA report (2015) on contingent jobs taken by
- historic development of the
- how technology is impacting the
- HR (human resources) adjustments to the flexible
- Marx's to Office Space descriptions of
- millennials of the
- new corporate mind-set needed for leveraging flexible
- polls findings on graduates not be ready for the
- See also Freelancers; Job market; Talent
- Workplace
- Catalant's disruptive transformation of the
- development of the flexible workforce and
- gig economy's transformation of the
- World
- World Economic Forum (2016)
- Wright-Ford, Kylie
X
- XYZ Corporation thought experiment
Y
- Yelp
- Yokley, Kara
Z
- Zappos
- Zlotoff, Ben
- Zuckerberg, Mark
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