relocation - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

Thomas (1946), James Carr (1948), and Alice (1949)—were born during those five years. "We had built a life there," she recalled in 1992. "I still have good friends from those days." Now they were going to have to leave because there was no other... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

diversification Companies are also starting to recognize—and rediscover, as in the case of Intel Corp.—the benefits of diversifying their global production and supply chains, Alfaro says. The chip manufacturer downsized its plant in Costa Rica in 2014 and View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Finance - Faculty & Research

2009, they had entered the Dubai market and began planning further expansion in the region. Believing Dubai would be central to their next phase of growth, the brothers relocated their families there in 2012. By 2024, Sacoor Brothers had... View Details

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Africa - Global

10% of the previously employed women remained jobless and another 35% remained occasionally employed. Additionally, the lockdowns shifted female workers from wage-employment to self-employment, relocated them into agriculture and other... View Details

28 May 2024
In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

advisory firms increasingly accommodated applicants’ personal circumstances in a drive to “win the war for talent.” Today, this is, unfortunately, not as critical. A desire to relocate geographically for personal reasons or to work at a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Middle East and Southeast Asia. By 2009, they had entered the Dubai market and began planning further expansion in the region. Believing Dubai would be central to their next phase of growth, the brothers relocated their families there in... View Details

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Partners and Families - MBA

. “The whole community, including faculty and HBS staff, is incredibly welcoming. My classmates have gone out of their way to make our two kids feel right at home.” Jonathan Jardine MBA 2014 MBA Voices Moving to the U.S. With a Family MBA Voices HBS Partner Feature:... View Details

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Leadership Fellows

framework and logistics for the interviewing and hiring process. For Student-Proposed: Supports students as they work with organizations to develop a proposal. Awards $65,000 toward the Fellow’s annualized salary of $130,000 in addition to an upfront View Details

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

on the chopping block themselves. One manager who had overseen 200 workers was accused of “professional incompetence” and abruptly relocated across the country. “I have no work anymore,” he reportedly said. “I am not even in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 May 2023
News

Alabama's Yella Fella

while Rane could have relocated the business to Atlanta or Houston for a gentler tax bill, he maintained Great Southern's headquarters in his hometown of Abbeville—population 2,000. The company did acquire several plants throughout the... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

approaches to combatting corruption, ranging from flatly refusing to pay bribes to looking for other ways to challenge the practice. Some companies decide to do less business inside India—or they conduct business in India only in sectors known to have less corruption.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

time, historians have reconceptualized commodification, sale, and ownership, recasting the market as a place of colliding human ambitions, fantasies of wealth, modes of resistance, acts of brutality, tenderness, and heroism. Slavery’s View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

heart of Wall Street, forced Lehman Brothers to relocate its operations. Lehman employees worked in temporary sites in Jersey City and Manhattan until the firm moved it operations to its new headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue in Midtown... View Details

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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA

day by day. Several more years passed before I relocated to Boston for employment, following the completion of my undergraduate education. It marked a fresh beginning, a place where I finally felt at ease in embracing my authentic self. I... View Details

Portrait Project

Ankit Tandon

completed on the ride out because my school was destroyed. In the coming days adrift in a sea of upheaval, my family would relocate to Houston, Texas, as newly minted refugees. In those roughest hours, however, the simple kindness and... View Details

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

initiative dedicated to raising sustainabi... Impact Stories Activating a Legion of People Bertina Ceccarelli When a company I was working for relocated to Omaha, I knew I wanted to stay in New York. I'd always imagined I'd do something... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

Fast Answer

Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

others. Using the database, users are able to benchmark their salary to individuals with similar job titles in the same geographic area. Realtor.com - Moving Guide A comprehensive guide to relocation resources, including a salary... View Details

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

professionals with an existing track record.” New employees relocate to Baltimore, where the firm is based. Investment teams are composed of generalists, not specialists, which maximizes knowledge sharing. The approach breaks with the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

operations from China, especially when the future of the trade war is uncertain. “They’ve made easy shifts, but it’s much harder to relocate a factory from China to Vietnam,” Cavallo says. “They are unwilling to make those hard choices... View Details