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  • July–August 2020
  • Article

Make the Most of Your Relocation

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
Although the COVID-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Geographic mobility can pay off... View Details
Keywords: Relocation; Mobility; Personal Development and Career; Geographic Location; Work-Life Balance
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  • January–February 2025
  • Article

Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: the emergence of relocation incentive programs that localities use to compete for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Motivation and Incentives; Geographic Location; Talent and Talent Management; Human Capital; Tulsa
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  • January 2023
  • Article

Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Victoria Sevcenko
Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their destinations, possibly triggering turnover. We... View Details
Keywords: Worker Relocation; Turnover; Firm-induced Migration; Smaller Towns; Employee Mobility; Geographic Mobility; Migration; Clusters; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance; Opportunities; Retention; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Location-Specificity and Geographic Competition for Remote Workers

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: geographic competition between localities for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for their new destinations and reverse net... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Human Capital; Geographic Location; Civil Society or Community; Motivation and Incentives
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  • September 2024
  • Article

Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19

By: Livia Alfonsi, Mary Namubiru and Sara Spaziani
We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the lockdowns imposed in Uganda reduced employment by 69% for women and by 45% for men,... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Wage Gap; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Wages; Uganda
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  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

digital nomad visas to attract a global workforce. Digital nomad visas allow tourists to legally work in a foreign country, creating a boon for areas trying to attract remote workers and for companies looking to entice talent,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 2019
  • Article

The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
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  • September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

Tulsa Remote: Moving Talent to Middle America

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Emma Salomon and Brittany Logan
Tulsa Remote sought to attract a diverse group of remote workers to the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma—and was willing to put its money where its mouth was, offering $10,000 and a range of wraparound services for its program participants. After a successful pilot year, which... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Relocation; COVID-19 Pandemic; Community; Employment; Internet and the Web; Geographic Location; Programs; Employees; Diversity; Recruitment; Oklahoma; Tulsa
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  • September 15, 2022
  • Article

Work-From-Anywhere as a Public Policy: 3 Findings from the Tulsa Remote Program

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Thomaz Teodorovicz
The adoption of work-from-anywhere by organizations might help smaller towns and communities across the country attract talent and reverse brain drain, by incentivizing remote workers to migrate to such locations. We evaluate how the Tulsa Remote program, which... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Grants; Labor; Government Administration; Tulsa
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  • 04 May 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

Reversing Brain Drain: Moving Talent to Middle America

Keywords: Re: Prithwiraj Choudhury
  • 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.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

TCS: From Physical Offices to Borderless Work

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Malini Sen
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, is a subsidiary of one of India’s most reputed conglomerates, the Tata Group. In 2020, TCS was valued at $144.7 billion, the highest for any company in the IT sector,... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Customer Satisfaction; Information Technology Industry; India; Asia; United States; Europe
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  • September 2018
  • Article

Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management

By: Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli and Katerina Linos
Although more than 800,000 displaced people arrived in Greece by sea in 2015, fewer than 5 percent applied for asylum in this first country of arrival. Instead, they either traveled northward informally or remained in Greece in legal limbo. The resultant chaotic... View Details
Keywords: Refugees; Governance Compliance; Knowledge Dissemination; Policy; Crisis Management; Communication; Greece
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  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

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

CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

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

addition, there has also been some very preliminary evidence of reshoring amid plans to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the US, says Alfaro, whose research shows that worker headcounts in that space rose by 1.9 percent in the US... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 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
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

others) produces in Mexico and ships back to the US under government contracts. Another tax could be devised to help defray worker retraining and relocation costs. Trade treaties could be renegotiated. The... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

workers, sharecroppers, and other nonwaged workers and shift attention from the industrial cities of the Northeast to the nation as a whole. That approach allows scholars to interrogate the connections between slavery and the unfolding of... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 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
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

competitive business conditions. Foreign tourists from Europe and North America, drawn by the promise of a pristine environment, relocated to Costa Rica and launched startups offering lodging and guided tours in protected areas, an effort... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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