In the first 34 seconds of a crisis-related presentation, perception rules and builds the level of brand and communication success. Even when you have great content, at that moment when a CEO or spokesperson steps in front of the mike to explain what happened and what will follow, media professionals...Read More
How could a comparatively tiny investment research firm wreak billions of dollars in damages? In January 2023, American-based Hindenburg Research (named after the infamous 1937 Hindenburg dirigible disaster) plowed through Adani Group in India. The firm publicly released a detailed report that alleged...Read More
As the ancient saying goes, “Of making many books there is no end.” Happily, a companion truism tells us: “one can never have too many books.” But alas, constraints of time comprise the foible. As an annual solution, many august publications (like the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the...Read More
While trying to hastily deal with some emails, something just went terribly wrong on your laptop. Your screen just went blank, followed by a message in large type: “Your computer has been encrypted.” As anxiety begins to swell, you think: “This can’t be happening to me – I’m the CEO!” A...Read More
Like clockwork, very large and otherwise competent companies again demonstrated in 2021 that they are fully capable of inexplicably spawning company-busting PR blunders. You think Peloton would have gotten it by now. The high-tech exercise equipment maker – which requires that you drop at least $2,000...Read More
The magnitude of Boeing’s global crisis was so widespread that it even rattled the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In the wake of rising anxiety over the deadly crashes of two Boeing 737 Max aircraft and an initial stoic Boeing response, falling Boeing shares brought down the influential 30-stock index...Read More
“We did not develop this medicine [Nexavar] for Indians, we developed it for western patients who can afford it.” These inflammatory words, uttered by Bayer AG Chairman Marijn Dekkers at a Financial Times global pharmaceutical forum last month, have flared into an international firestorm,...Read More
Near-blasphemous, anti-growth blather? Particularly when U.S. auto sales are peaking at a six year high and people are congratulating each other for a bull-like market? Well, I didn’t come up with this headline. It was recently penned by Alan Sloan, Fortune magazine’s senior editor-at-large for finance...Read More
