Hindustan Unilever is sending its employees to work at startups, here’s why
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The company, under the Entrepreneurial Immersion and Secondment initiative, will be sending its staff to startups for time period ranging from three months to two years.
Those staying away for up to a year under the programme will be on
"In an extremely dynamic environment, this is an opportunity for leaders to experience different business models and instil an end-to-end mindset. We want people to be entrepreneurial as they work in a large company - not to take resources or infrastructure for granted, but to approach everything with an owner's mindset,”
Initially, the startups will be selected from the list of startups in which
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However, an issue that the company may face is the possibility of them deciding to stay on in the startup and not returning to HUL.
"While we see this as a longer, leadership-development exercise, we are happy to experiment and, if he or she can create value in the startup space, we're happy to take the chance,” Biddappa told ET.
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