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- 1st Nov 2017
Vacancy: Interim General Counsel (Maternity Cover), London
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is looking for an exceptional candidate to join us as the interim General Counsel in our London office. The successful applicant will be the sole in-house lawyer supporting the BIT Group of Companies worldwide. Candidates must be comfortable taking pragmatic and commercial day to day decisions…
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- 7th Nov 2017
Changing teachers’ attitudes toward corporal punishment
Physical punishment — from hitting children with sticks to making them kneel to slapping them — occurs every day in classrooms throughout the world. Yet we know experiences of violence at school are linked to lower attendance and academic achievement as well as higher drop-out rates. In turn, lower educational attainment rates among girls can…
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- 8th Nov 2017
Global funders back Applied, first spin out from the Behavioural Insights Team
We are delighted to announce that Applied, the online recruitment tool spun out from the Behavioural Insights Team, has successfully raised funding which will enable it to scale its operations worldwide. Applied started as a project within BIT, when we began to change our internal hiring practices in line with…
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- 10th Nov 2017
How flexible working can improve gender equality in the workplace
Today is Equal Pay Day - an annual reminder of gender inequality in the workplace. While attention rightly tends to focus on the pay gap between men and women, there are a number of issues that impact differently on employees depending on their gender. One of those is flexible working.…
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- 17th Nov 2017
The first Briton to give away £1bn
This week saw a quiet, private celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Gatsby Foundation. In case you haven’t heard of it, Gatsby is the charity through which David (Lord) Sainsbury has given away over £1bn. He was the first Briton ever to pass this threshold. Set up when he…
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- 20th Nov 2017
BI Ventures is hiring: help us drive our flagship products Predictiv and Promptable
BI Ventures is expanding! We are looking for excellent candidates to drive two of our flagship products in the following roles: Head of Growth (Founding Team), Predictiv Head of Growth (Founding Team), Promptable To scale Promptable and Predictiv we need people who can drive the product strategy, lead on global customer acquisition…
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- 23rd Nov 2017
When attempts to improve the treatment of women fail
The recent spotlight on sexual harassment in the workplace has led employers from Hollywood to Westminster to think about how they treat women. This, alongside the introduction of the new requirement for employers to report their Gender Pay Gap, means it is a good time to ask the question: what…
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- 26th Nov 2017
Behavioural Insights in Australia
In Everett Rogers's classic text, The Diffusion of Innovations, he argues that it helps that good ideas are effective. But it’s often not quite enough. For innovations to really take hold, they need to have the capacity to be trialled and reinvented in different contexts. People need to be able…
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- 27th Nov 2017
The UK's new Industrial Strategy: a modern foundation for economic growth
Traditionally, Industrial Strategy conjures images of furnaces and molten metal. In turn, the language of economic policy - productivity, innovation, competitive advantage, regulation - hardly sparks the imagination. Today’s launch of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy White Paper should help shift these perceptions. The Strategy is formed around five foundations…
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- 30th Nov 2017
The Nest Learning Thermostat: Making energy savings easy
How many of us have our heating programmed to automatically come on when we get home? In which case, how often do we come home late, to find the heating has been on unnecessarily? Or perhaps we find ourselves watching TV, suddenly a little hot, realising we could have turned…