Health
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Jenevieve Fisher: Living Lessons of Healing

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Manny Frishberg
December 10, 2015

From a very young age, personal tragedies propelled Jenevieve Fisher to want to help people get well.

When she was just 6 years old, her younger brother, age 2, passed away from spinal meningitis. She also had a cousin, just two years younger than her, with cerebral palsy. Growing up together, she said, they were as close as brother and sister. And so she also witnessed the struggle of living with a disability, for him and his...

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Tech & Science
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A Black Eye for Big Coal

Randy Woods
December 08, 2015

At a time when large corporations have had an unprecedented degree of power to impose themselves on the landscape in the name of jobs, a group of citizens, environmental activists, native tribes and businesses in the Pacific Northwest have dealt a series of stunning blows against development.

     Since the 1990s, a group of large mining companies, railroads and maritime terminal operators have sought to use the Northwest’s...

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Arts & Culture
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Barbi Leifert’s “Vibrations” in Saatchi Gallery

PR for People Team
December 07, 2015

Barbi Leifert’s painting "Vibrations" has been approved and has begun appearing with other works on screen at the 2nd floor of the Saatchi Gallery London Museum of Contemporary Art for London

Her work will remain in the loop as long as the screen is up. This is an ongoing project and an end date has not been set. ...

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Small Business
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Entrepreneurial Risk

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Annie Searle
December 04, 2015

If you’re an entrepreneur and focused on growing your company, one would presume that you’ve done an operational risk assessment.

     Such an assessment takes into account more than just expenses or revenue. It includes the set of business assumptions you have made, from your expected market placement among your competitors, to whether your expenses will exceed your revenue for some period of...

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Business
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The True Measure of a Brand

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 04, 2015

Recently, a senior middle manager working for a Fortune 500 technology company called to learn if our PR firm could help reposition his professional brand. He had been with the same company for 20 years, but his most recent promotions had been lateral; he felt he would never be considered for the CEO slot. This company, similar to many others, does not promote a new CEO from within and instead recruits...

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Entertainment
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Wali Collins at Broadway Comedy Club

PR for People Team
December 04, 2015

 

 

 

 

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Entertainment
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Roman Suarez: One Funny Latino

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Manny Frishberg
December 04, 2015

Roman Suarez’s story is the essential American tale. The child of South American immigrants, Roman grew up in a single-parent home in The Bronx. 

“There was no money for a babysitter,” he recalls. “So what raised me was television: ‘I Love Lucy,’ ‘M*A*S*H,’ Redd Foxx, all these hilarious comedy shows. After watching a hundred reruns of ‘Benny Hill’ or the ‘Saturday Night Live’ show that I would tape record, I would just do that...

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Business
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The Divine Right of Kings

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 02, 2015

A “C-level” or “C-suite” position is nice work, if you can get it. It’s understandable why so many people want to be in the club. The salaries are astronomically high and the perks are amazing. But isn’t it just ridiculous that CEOs still get paid egregious sums of money, even when their performance is abysmal and they fail?

     Recently, Bank of America disclosed that it had $4 billion less in regulatory capital than it thought...

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