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Inspired by Maria
This morning, I gave a presentation to 700 women entrepreneurs at Oklahoma State’s Spears School of Business’ “Women Inspire” conference. It was a thrill. But perhaps the highlight of the experience...
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Walmart’s Reputational Woes
Credit: David Rochkind/Bloomberg via Getty Images Anyone who read The New York Times investigative piece this weekend about Walmart probably had the same reaction I did. First, this is what real...
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Media Navel Gaze: April 30, 2012
The Week Unpeeled The big headlines in the business press continued to focus on bearish news on the European economy (and surprisingly not a whole lot on Walmart/Mexico) with the UK dipping back into...
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Save the Date: July/August 2014
Noteworthy events for the month ahead . . . Italy takes over the rotating EU presidency from Greece on July 1. More details on Italy’s priorities here. The U.S. celebrates its 238th year of...
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Media Navel Gaze: February 23, 2015
The Week Unpeeled The weather seemed to be the headline news all week, with Boston again buried by big snow (nearing its all-time annual record of 107.6 inches) and a big freeze becoming routine around...
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Media Navel Gaze: March 30, 2015
The Week Unpeeled The Germanwings tragedy was front-page news and lead broadcast story for much of last week, with more and more creepy details emerging swiftly each day, focusing recently on the...
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Media Navel Gaze: April 6, 2015
The Week Unpeeled Headlines turned their attention to the Mideast last week with focus on Iran’s deal hammered out with six nations to limit its nuclear program with commentary as much on the detail...
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Media Navel Gaze: April 13, 2015
The Week Unpeeled The markets and media were caught off guard and busy on news late Thursday/Friday that GE was exiting the banking business in what James Stewart in The New York Times called “another...
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Save the Date: June 2015
Noteworthy events for the month ahead . . . June is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, National Safety Month, and Professional Wellness Month. A few key general elections taking place in June: Latvia –...
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Media Navel Gaze: June 8, 2015
The Week Unpeeled No doubt Caitlyn and Fifa dominated headlines and more last week (and more later) but one of the interesting themes in the media focused on cyber-security and otherwise, with one of...
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The Role of PR in Mexico’s Mid-Term Elections
While Mexico’s traditional political parties maintained a majority, there were a few surprises in this year’s mid-term elections On Sunday, June 7th, Mexico held its mid-term elections. While mid-terms...
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Media Navel Gaze: June 15, 2015
The Week Unpeeled To be honest, busy news week but no one big story seemed to dominate with concerns about Euro growth still keeping markets shaky and the IFM even worried now about US growth, thereby...
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Assessing Mexico’s Mid-term Election Results
Mexico’s mid-term elections on June 7th sent mixed messages to the Mexican people with the first-ever appointment of an independent gubernatorial candidate, Jaime Rodriguez Calderon (aka “El Bronco”)....
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Media Navel Gaze: July 20, 2015
The Week Unpeeled This continues to the summer of big, big news and last week did not disappoint, with world leaders reaching a historic agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear ability for more than a...
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Media Navel Gaze: July 27, 2015
The Week Unpeeled The presidential campaign is in full swing with last count seeing some 16 contenders for the Republican race, least among them Donald Trump in full photo-op glory going to the...
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Media Navel Gaze: August 10, 2015
The Week Unpeeled Nothing seemed to trump the Republican debates last week, except maybe the follow-on Trump discussion after the apparent front runner, The Donald, lashed out at Fox for unfair...
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Media Navel Gaze: August 24, 2015
The Week Unpeeled Yikes! The summer turned nasty last week, with stock markets worldwide showing red almost everywhere as the indices hit 10-percent correction levels amid commentary that the six-year...
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Media Navel Gaze: September 14, 2015
The Week Unpeeled US media focus – outside of FashionWeek and the US Open in New York, continued on the presidential election, with voting still a distant 14 months away. The field of 16 Republican...
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Media Navel Gaze: October 12, 2015
The Week Unpeeled Let’s just call it “Surprise Week”: In what seemed to be a surprise (just like the Arab Spring, perhaps), the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet,...
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Media Navel Gaze: January 25, 2016
This time, the weathermen got it right as the East Coast got buried with near-record snowfall (26-plus inches in New York City—0.1 inch shy of the record), causing the city to completely shut down on...
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