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The Hollywood Reporter, July 3, 2015 “In the history of the motion-picture business, the number of beautiful, really beautiful women — a Lucille Ball — that are funny, is impossible to find.” That’s what former Disney CEO Michael...
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Monica P. Hawkins, Chief Learning Officer, July 2, 2015 Have you noticed the level of visibility CEOs are attracting for issues other than quarterly earnings? One might say they are taking social responsibility to the next level. Or that this select but growing...
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Robert D. McFadden, The New York Times, July 1, 2015 Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of...
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Harvard Business Review, July 2015 Following a crisis, regulators and managers naturally take steps to prevent a recurrence. In 2002, after Enron and WorldCom succumbed to massive accounting fraud, U.S. legislators passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gave directors...
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Lindsey Prowse, LinkedIn, June 4, 2015 Over the past few years, the rules of the game for PR pros has changed. Instead of addressing specialized targets, local publications, or television networks, they’re pressured to stay on top of multiple sources: a...
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Angela Charlton and Raphael Satter, The Associated Press, June 24, 2015 French President Francois Hollande is holding an emergency meeting with the country’s top security officials to respond to WikiLeaks documents saying that the U.S. National Security...
