Relocation - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

asking delivery and rideshare drivers in our neighborhood if they had heard of PPP and if they had received aid dollars,” adds Shrey who remained in the Boston area while Chrys relocated to Florida to stay with family. The two began... View Details

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can produce. Kuttner argues that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In Mumbai the $3 billion public-private Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) proposes free housing and services for Dharavi's longtime residents to relocate from their ad-hoc dwellings. To fund the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Griffin H. JamesHarvard Business School Case 210-085 A commercial property company evaluates water risks including the government's ability to remedy, the company's operating exposure and mitigation, and whether to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni

day the, 1TB (terabyte) of storage data you had access to while matriculated will be downgraded to 100GB (gigabytes). Most MBA students are well below 100GB of data. You will not lose data, but any data over the 100GB threshold will become read only until it is View Details

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

Bollywood to the masses. In California, Mayuri was teaching a wildly popular Bollywood fitness class at UC Berkeley, packing the school gym with 150 students every class. I had a gut feeling that we were the right team sitting on a potentially incredible opportunity.... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

100,000 Japanese Americans to relocate from their homes on the Pacific coast to internment camps in other parts of the country. Not knowing how long the internment would last, many of the internees hurriedly sold their houses and assets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

incentive to zone restrictively for housing." Not surprisingly, affordable housing has also become a growing problem in the suburbs. Often devoting little thought to housing availability in outlying communities, companies have View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

including hiring, training, and firing personnel. All reward teams at all levels for performance. All provide generally unmonitored time for employees to develop product and service innovations as well as either redesign their jobs or View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

then joined Answerthink, a West Coast consulting firm, where he continued as EVP and managing director while he earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar at HBS. Answerthink wanted Shumway to relocate to New York when he finished his MBA, but... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

privileged families have always had an easier path to traditional power. Those on the outside—foreigners, women, African-Americans, non-Protestant religious affiliations—often pursued other paths to power. When doors were closed, outsiders created their own paths.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

for up to 36 months. A partial redesign could come in at $360 million and force the orchestra to relocate for up to 30 months. Finally, reducing operating costs could include sharing supplier management, venue rentals, purchasing, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

Profile

Dana Hoffmann

your bills, it’s a great career choice.“ A chance call from a friend of a friend in Silicon Valley turned Hoffmann’s attention from tennis to Portico. The caller explained that he was in property management and tenant relocation and... View Details

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

relocated to a larger store and is experiencing losses for the first time. Sales and costs have increased along with the breakeven point. Changes in pricing and promotion must be explored. Alternative actions to return to profitability... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

he announced his candidacy. He says he and his wife, Anne, relocated for the “quality of life” and a better environment to raise their young daughters. Others see the move as political opportunism. “Most people in this community who are... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

need to maximize moviegoing to Hollywood blockbusters and also source smaller movies that appeal to our diverse audiences throughout the year," says Frank, who cites Lopez's "incredible positive energy and vision" as the key reason for her family's View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must confront tensions in balancing profit, growth, and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

previously undisclosed files, many of which detailed the treatment of Kikuyu detainees during the Mau Mau Rebellion. The files had been removed from Kenya and relocated to Britain in the 1950s, along with reams of documents removed from... View Details