Someone should’ve said no
Well, there’s knowing your shareholders – and then there’s going way too far. The German magazine Der Spiegel reports today that the country’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank, hired private investigators...
View ArticleIR as a mystery thriller
Investor relations as a profession doesn’t often make Page 1, but today’s Wall Street Journal casts IR in a starring role in Deutsche Bank‘s covert maneuvering against a dissident shareholder and...
View ArticleLoose lips sink … IR
The latest Wall Street scandal, an insider trading case against billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his hedge fund firm Galleon Group, holds implicit warnings for investor relations professionals: Beware...
View ArticleCowboy ethics
As an American child of the Fifties and Sixties, I grew up on westerns on TV and in movie theaters. John Wayne, Marshal Dillon in “Gunsmoke,” the “Bonanza” Cartwrights. Good guys in white hats. Not...
View ArticleInside information & avoiding illegal trading
In medieval times, morality plays taught people through dramatic performance the difference between good and evil. A related phenomenon was the public punishment of malefactors by locking them in “the...
View ArticleCrisis rules
When a company gets into a crisis – a real crisis with the mob at the gates wanting to tear the place down – management can call a lawyer. Or a politician. Or a PR person. Lanny Davis, a Washington...
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