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Category: Taking & Managing Risk

23
Jun
2014

Pat Riley: The Master of the Press Conference

Categories: Taking & Managing Risk
When the New York Knicks were contending for an NBA title in the early 1990s (remember those days?), Pat Riley’s postgame news conferences were a marvel to behold. Win or lose, he always kept his cool when jousting with reporters and was unfailingly supportive of his players – even those who’d performed badly. And he did this all season, in the toughest sports-media town in the country. So it ... Read More
28
May
2014

Five Reasons CEOs Ignore Employees in a Crisis

Categories: Crisis, Media, Taking & Managing Risk
Why is speaking to employees during a crisis so difficult? When a company is mired in controversy, it needs every friend it can get. Employees are likely to be supportive in these situations, but companies seldom do much to engage them. Chief executives offer up a variety of objections. Here are the five most common ones - and why they don’t hold up. Read More
28
Feb
2014

What Henry Kravis Can Learn from Carl Icahn

Categories: Financial Services, Taking & Managing Risk
It’s been a bad week for the image minders in the private equity industry. First, Henry Kravis bemoaned the industry’s awful reputation, and now a tax-reform plan - floated by a Republican (gasp!) - threatens to axe its carried-interest tax goodie.  Meanwhile, investors like Carl Icahn that once were reviled as “corporate raiders” have been reborn as “activist invest... Read More
06
Feb
2014

Learning from Twitter’s Mistakes

Categories: Media, Taking & Managing Risk
The first earnings announcement for a newly public company is often traumatic.  Just ask Dick Costolo and the team at Twitter, which saw the company’s shares plummet 20% after announcing results yesterday.  A glorious IPO a few months ago made being a public company seem so easy.  Now what? Read More
27
Jan
2014

Saving Sergio Ermotti

Categories: Financial Services, Taking & Managing Risk
UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti bravely launched a defense of the banking sector and hit out at its critics in a candid interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In this post, we imagine the conversation Ermotti had with his PR chieftain when he returned from the mountains. (more…) Read More
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