America’s CEOs may feel more pressure than ever to speak out on social issues from gun control to immigration, but ask them what they think the business of corporate communications should be and the answer is overwhelming: business .
According to a new survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations in conjunction with Chief...
In 2010, in a case known as Citizens United, the Supreme Court held that corporations should be afforded the same First Amendment freedoms of speech rights as people. The main outcome was that corporations were allowed to behave like private citizens, contributing unlimited money to the political campaigns of their choosing.
Eight years later, Nike released on Twitter and other owned...
A frequently shared video from Davos 2018 showed Alibaba founder Jack Ma warning audiences to change the way they teach, otherwise 30 years from now we will all be in trouble. “Everything we teach should be different from machines,” he warned. The earliest audience for Jack Ma’s prophetic statement looks to be the communications industry, as this summer Alibaba announced its AI copywriter — a...
I remember when “me too” was just an answer to an unremarkable question.
I might ask a colleague “Are you a fan of wine or beer?”
“Beer,” he might reply. “Yeah, me too.”
Then in late 2017, those two words — me too — changed everything. #MeToo became the cultural movement that linked just about every woman in the world together as a target of sexism or sexual harassment...
It’s become somewhat cliché to talk “brand,” but the fact is that getting it right means combining a lot of science and a good bit of art. As a leading global internet and consumer brand, eBay is on a multi-year journey to modernize our brand across our stakeholders. Along the way, we’ve gained some insights that have informed and shaped our approach.
A starting point for us has been...
On Sunday, Nov. 18, Dr. Stacy L. Smith , Tessa Thompson, and Brie Larson had a photoshoot for The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 Women in Entertainment Power 100 issue . The trio discussed the importance...
I sat down for an interview with one of our student coders, Briana Oakley, who is a singer-songwriter from East Bay, California. We talked about her love of music, her close relationship with her mother, her experience on American Idol , and the inspiration behind her recently released album, Stars .
When did you first discover your passion and talent for music?
I have always...
The world of medical technology is undergoing a profound transition, driven by the explosion of new products, services and apps. The underlying change agent is — no surprise here — innovative technology, primarily mobile, Internet-based with unprecedented user-friendly interfaces.
This fundamental change represents more than an incremental improvement in technology, but instead has...