Case | HBS Case Collection | February 2018 (Revised May 2019)

CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

by William Kerr, Michael Norris and Manjari Raman

Abstract

In 2018, Ann Randazzo, executive director of the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is assessing the organization’s performance since its 2006 founding. Founded to address an imminent retirement bubble of middle skills workers in the utilities industry, CEWD had since expanded its mission to focus on workforce development initiatives to improve the skills and diversity of the industry’s workforce. The group was an example of an industry coming together to collectively address a problem facing all members of the industry.

Keywords: Workforce Development; Industry Cooperation; Skills Gap; Middle Skills; Training; Strategic Planning; Competency and Skills; Utilities Industry; United States;

Language: English Format: Print 22 pages EducatorsPurchase

Citation:

Kerr, William, Michael Norris, and Manjari Raman. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Case 818-081, February 2018. (Revised May 2019.)

Related Work

  1. Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | June 2019

    CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

    William R. Kerr and Ted Smalley Bowen

    Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-081. The teaching note presents background, case details, and teaching strategies, along with board plans and supporting graphics.

    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Demographics; Economics; Education; Energy; Jobs and Positions; Intellectual Property; Labor; Knowledge; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Organizations; Outcome or Result; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Projects; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Technology; Energy Industry; North and Central America;

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    Kerr, William R., and Ted Smalley Bowen. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-133, June 2019.  View Details
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  2. Case | HBS Case Collection | February 2018 (Revised May 2019)

    CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

    William Kerr, Michael Norris and Manjari Raman

    In 2018, Ann Randazzo, executive director of the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is assessing the organization’s performance since its 2006 founding. Founded to address an imminent retirement bubble of middle skills workers in the utilities industry, CEWD had since expanded its mission to focus on workforce development initiatives to improve the skills and diversity of the industry’s workforce. The group was an example of an industry coming together to collectively address a problem facing all members of the industry.

    Keywords: Workforce Development; Industry Cooperation; Skills Gap; Middle Skills; Training; Strategic Planning; Competency and Skills; Utilities Industry; United States;

    Citation:

    Kerr, William, Michael Norris, and Manjari Raman. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Case 818-081, February 2018. (Revised May 2019.)  View Details
    CiteView DetailsEducatorsPurchase Related

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