Operation fix-it
Few pieces of news can be as dangerous for a company as revelations about accounting irregularities - striking as these do to the...
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Regulation Archive
Just don't say no
Jean Jarvis, vice president of investor relations at Times Mirror Company, has long maintained that girls who were popular in high...
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Sector survey: Oil
The oil industry received a shot in the arm in March when a successful Opec meeting established higher production rates keeping...
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Lobbying for change
Those with experience of organized riots or bar brawls will already be familiar with the 'strength in numbers' phenomenon. Others...
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Flash in the pan
Much media attention has been paid recently to what was billed by the Wall Street Journal as 'the first hostile takeover bid by a...
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Merger messages
A merger or an acquisition can present one of the most challenging scenarios an investor relations manager will ever face. While...
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Long arm of the law
There's nothing like a good SEC regulatory investigation to ruin your morning. Throw in a multi-million dollar class-action...
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Bound and gagged
Financial advertising, like IR, is about top-quality communication. It's about catching the eye of the investment community and...
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Distant rumbles
Carl Jung called it 'synchronicity', so did the Police - a way to describe the parallel development of the same idea in distant...
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A merger blooms
The day began with a merger announcement and ended with Tony Williams hurrying through the streets of London, a big bunch of...
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