Morgan Stanley altered its plan to concentrate operations in three Times Square towers, instead moving some offices north of the city.
The terrorist attack has also forced New York businesses to rethink how their operations are clustered, and many companies are taking steps to avoid concentrating operations in one place.
The network was set up by a previous management team; about two years ago, new investors decided to concentrate operations on Long Island and began recruiting workers from the far-flung network to resettle on Long Island.
Last year, American military leaders adopted a strategy of concentrating operations in what they identified as 80 "key terrain districts," mostly in the south and east of the country, less than a fourth of Afghanistan's districts.
"With regard to concentrating operations domestically, what I'd like you to understand is that the issue is not whether they're overseas or at home, but rather that development and production are spread all over the place," Executive Vice President Takashi Takaya said.
American, like many competitors, had concentrated its operations on the East and West Coasts and in major business centers, and featured service focused on direct flights.
In addition, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection requires NMPs from the largest operations called concentrated animal feeding operations (> 1,000 AEUs, or 301 1,000 AEUs and a concentrated animal operation, or per federal regulation) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2012).
Even though he supposedly managed billions of dollars, he concentrated the operation in a small space, run by a handful of longtime associates and family members, who thus far haven't been charged with any wrongdoing.
In respect to water pollution, the agency made a positive step by re-establishing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), agricultural operations where large numbers of animals are intensively confined and fed for industrial production, as a national enforcement priority.
Kone said it would also sell its forest machines unit as it concentrates on operations like elevators, escalators and automatic doors.
