Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

We've worked hard from the beginning to avoid hiring Lone Wolves — the all-star players who resist bringing in a second team member to help complete a deal. The results: Our sales held even in 2009, grew 40% in 2010, 60% in 2011, and are on a 77% run rate for 2012. It's the wrong strategy. Hold the Line on Prices.

Incentives 15

Incentives Competitive Advantage Discount Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. So it was Lyme disease that did it!

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Since 2011, I have been working with him to further globalize BAYER’s management. ” Bayer’s capability of being in tune with its global markets was not optimized back in 2011. We resisted the short-term approach of hiring female talent from other companies, a decision that has gone over well internally.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Globalization Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. Stay in school, and resist the lure of quick success. There is a possible consolation prize: perhaps these kids can parlay their programming skill into jobs at Facebook or Google. Unfortunately, the odds there are only slightly better.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. Disinvestment in schools has also been central to teacher strikes that have occurred since 2011, in Jersey City, Philadelphia, Chicago (twice), Seattle, Portland and Wisconsin.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. In a newer working paper with more-complete data, they revise that to report two inflection points, one in the $10,000-$11,000 range and another around $15,000-$16,0000.

GDP 8

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

After a short while on this program, we have found the majority of our employees to be highly resistant to going away from this plan. As a point of reference, as incomes for the majority of incomes actually decreased in 2011 and 2012 , our employees' incomes increased by an average of 19% in 2012.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In May 2012, as part of our research , we gave out the new dies randomly to 35 of the 135 producers in Sialkot and sat back to watch. Their number one answer: employee resistance. To better understand how the balls are manufactured, see this video.). We asked owners why not.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

There were complaints and resistance within the company, which had retained a culture of strict hierarchy and rigid, top-down management style. In 2011, 17 employees lost their lives at Anglo American operations, compared with 44 in 2006, the year before my arrival—a reduction of 62%. This was not a popular decision.

Operations 8

Operations Industry CEO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

Though the main restaurant closed in 2011, they subsequently reopened it as the ElBulli Foundation (a sort of think tank), while the other restaurants and business lines are still operating today. This collective culture of creativity multiplies the pool of ideas and softens resistance to new products and processes being adopted.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

The world''s first virtual store was a Tesco Homeplus opened in the Seoul Subway in August 2011. According to shop2mobi, a Dutch Internet start-up that works with retailers to launch QR-code based virtual stores, over 300 virtual brick-and-mortar stores were "published" worldwide in 2012. Bring your brand to your customers.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Merchandising Download 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. Nike entered the wearable fitness tracker market in 2012 with its FuelBand, supported by a world-class brand, significant advertising, and functional advantages.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76