Posted in Case studies, News Roundup, PR Practices on Sep 12th, 2006 No Comments »
This is the news from MarketWatch/Dow Jones: Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that embattled Chairwoman Patricia Dunn will retain her position until the company’s January 2007 board meeting, when she will be replaced by company Chief Executive Mark Hurd.
The timing is about right. We suspected that she would be axed around now, with Hurd consolidating power. [...]
Posted in Case studies, News Roundup, PR Practices on Jul 25th, 2006 No Comments »
I have blogged several times about Wal-Mart’s operational and public relations woes. Wal-Mart doesn’t need a PR war room and it does not have to be at war with its critics. It needs to better integrate into the communities in which it does business and give its workers - the spine of the those communities - a [...]
Posted in News Roundup on Feb 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Punxsutawney Phil says we’ll have six more weeks of winter and “New York Vinnie,” a Seattle broadcaster, wonders why Seattle isn’t unrestrained New York kind of crazy for the Seahawks in the Superbowl this weekend. Both are huge PR events and remind us that even the State of the Union — with pre-buttals and [...]
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