Yet when Ms. Bachelder returned to her corporate headquarters, "it was clear that she got her knuckles rapped" by Yum Brands' chief executive, David C. Novak, Ms. Newkirk said.
When it announced its plan to review where to have its headquarters, it made passing references to "regulatory and structural reforms" and the UK's plans to "ring fence" retail banks.
In the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, where the sect had its headquarters, it was dubbed Boko Haram.
HSBC has said that if it did move its headquarters it could have an impact on a few hundred jobs of a 257,000-strong workforce.
While the company made most of the smaller building its headquarters, it leased the larger one to several tenants in blocks ranging from 2,500 to 21,000 square feet, said Joseph Romano, regional managing director at Advance.
Instead of moving the team to Seattle where Tableau has its headquarters, it intends to leave the Empirical Systems team in place and establish an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Now that Sotheby's has completed its $150 million expansion of its York Avenue headquarters, it finds itself with almost too much space.
In addition to a flagship factory near its Bavarian headquarters, it owns two plants in Malta and the Czech Republic.
As Roche closes its New Jersey headquarters, it plans to open a smaller research facility in Manhattan in late 2013, part of a wave that city officials hope will turn New York into a biotech mecca.
Apart from its Thai headquarters, it has an office in Vietnam, and two months ago incorporated an office in Malaysia.
Instead of building for wired populace surrounding its California headquarters, it started thinking about what would make Facebook a great experience in tiny towns on the other side of the planet.
