If You’ve Got It—Flaunt It!
Recently, the Boston advertising agency Conover Tuttle Pace started its second annual Summer Sublet desk swap. As reported by the Boston Globe, the Summer Sublet is a combination lottery/draft, in which employees maneuver their way to better quarters for a month. This year’s big winner traded his spot in the communal workspace for the president’s glass-walled corner office--complete with TV and a garden view Summer Sublet requires everyone, from the newbies to the bosses, to sit in a different place until Labor Day. As a small company (just 35 employees), Conover Tuttle Pace is in a position to move folks around ...
Is Your Corporate Website Ready To Audition?
This morning I was at my son's primary school, watching their end-of-term version of Britain's Got Talent: 17 groups of small children dancing, singing, playing instruments and telling jokes. (Electric guitar, since you ask). It was, of course, exactly as you'd expect, but the judges found something genuinely good to say about all of them, even when it went horribly wrong. And sometimes there were flashes of something very special. It struck me that this was really very like my day job of reviewing and assessing corporate websites. Superficially, corporate sites can seem similar and predictable - after all, they have to cover ...
Tales From Corporate Governance Surveys
There is always something happening in Corporate Governance. Two recent notable items are -- Corporate Governance is Top Challenge for Companies Considering an IPO, KPMG Survey Series Finds Annual Global CEO Survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) KPMG and the New York Stock Exchange-Euronext recently offered IPO Bootcamps for companies considering an initial public offering (IPO). Participating companies were asked to name their top three challenges in preparing for an IPO. The results are a bit surprising. The top three items were - improving corporate governance (64 percent) preparation of a robust business plan (40 percent) and preparation of financial track record (36 ...
What Makes for Effective Investor Relations Sites? Part 18: What’s Your Strategy?
In terms of financial theory, investors buy stock in a company on the expectation that future cash flows from the company will be enough to repay the investment and pay a return over a foreseeable time horizon. In order to do this, investors must have some visibility into the potential for future profits. This is where the job of investor relations comes in. Clarifying how the company will meet challenges going forward to pay out returns to shareholders is a three-fold task: making sure people clearly understand the company, its products and markets laying down a vision for how the company’s ...
Corporate Reputation in the Financial Sector
In the financial sector, the trust stakeholders have placed in companies has been damaged both at industry and company level whether due to failures in governance, risk management or ethics, or due to excessive reward structures. Companies need to take this issue seriously to rebuild their reputations. So what should they do? There are three key groups of actions. Demonstrate good practice and compliance To start with: Given the visibility, dissection and discussion of the various problems that occurred in the sector, companies need to demonstrate good practice in all these problem areas even if during the crisis some or all of the issues ...
Unintended Consequences: Rising Veteran Unemployment
The unemployment rate among U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan has been increasing every year—all the way from 6.1% in 2007 to 14.7% in March, 2010. Obviously, unemployment is higher overall in 2010. But in March the composite national rate was about 10%, which means there's a big difference between vets and most other groups. A recent USA Today story cites three specific reasons for the high rate of veteran unemployment: 1. Difficulty in translating military skills to civilian job requirements 2. Employer worries that reservists will be redeployed 3. Employer concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Reason 2 is just plain practical, from ...
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Women Spend 30% More Time on Social Network Sites than Men Worldwide
ComScore released a new report this week called Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, which offers enlightening statistics and trends related to how men and women use the Internet around the world. Considering that women make most purchasing decisions, this is a report that brand managers need to read. One of the most interesting findings in the comScore report tells us that women spend 30% more time on social networking sites than men do. Not only do they spend more time on social... Read more »
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Women Spend 30% More Time on Social Network Sites than Men Worldwide
ComScore released a new report this week called Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, which offers enlightening statistics and trends related to how men and women use the Internet around the world. Considering that women make most purchasing...
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Tales From Corporate Governance Surveys
There is always something happening in Corporate Governance.
Two recent notable items are –
Corporate Governance is Top Challenge for Companies Considering an IPO, KPMG Survey Series Finds
Annual Global CEO Survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers...
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CSR
Something to learn from BAE Systems?
In May this year BAE Systems launched their new website – a website dedicated to education. Aimed at fostering an interest in engineering from an early age, the site features a selection of fun online educational resources. These complement the ongoing...
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Shareholders
What Makes for Effective Investor Relations Sites? Part 17: Make the Individual Shareholder Feel Welcome
Customer relations (and I use the term loosely) has undergone a number of iterations over the years as companies have sought to satisfy the ever increasing demands of customers for information in a cost efficient manner. During my lifetime I have seen...
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Careers
Phenomenal Facebook
I am (at last) getting into Facebook. For some reason, Twitter made sense to me immediately, while Facebook has remained largely a mystery. But after a few weeks of floundering around, I’m starting to understand a little better.
Biggest help: ...
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Investor Relations
What Makes for Effective Investor Relations Sites? Part 22: Tell Investors When They Can Expect Things
Many years ago, I had a sell side analyst tell me, “One of the hallmarks of a well managed company is when you see they publish a calendar of earnings releases… and they stick to their dates”. This leads me to today’s thought on effective company...
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Choosing a Social Campaign
Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Youtube, any corporation who decides to take their business aboard the World Wide Web should take a long, hard look at their social media campaign to see if it’s returning...
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If You’ve Got It—Flaunt It!
Recently, the Boston advertising agency Conover Tuttle Pace started its second annual Summer Sublet desk swap. As reported by the Boston Globe, the Summer Sublet is a combination lottery/draft, in which employees maneuver their way to better quarters...
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