Publications
Publications
- September 2022
- HBS Case Collection
HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential
By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
Abstract
Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child care and education. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dutch Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark announced that it would provide a large grant to HPP, a non-profit that aimed to help organizations—like hospitals—tap into the full potential of the Dutch labor market by helping them better manage their part-time workforce. HPP's President and Founder Wieteke Graven wondered how HPP could grow from an annual budget of €450,000 to more than four times that within months. Could her team scale this quickly and what would happen when the government funding ended?
Keywords
COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
Citation
Trelstad, Brian, and Idelès Kaandorp. "HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential." Harvard Business School Case 323-024, September 2022.