Fascinating speaker on entrepreneur success recently at Columbia Business School, a self-made billionaire named Henry Swieca, who according to Forbes Magazine is worth$1.2 billion dollars.
Everything PR News caught up with 5WPR’s Ronn Torossian in Moscow on a combined business/pleasure tour of the Russian city. Given our own interest in Eastern Europe business, and Torossian’s now legendary and meteoric rise to PR prominence, we asked the PR’s most energetic guru about his interests in Europe
Negotiation is an old habit that’s still highly appreciated by most business people out there. Both retailers and buyers are well aware that good deals don’t come easy. Yet, not everyone is prepared enough to achieve success. Retailers must first learn to play the game in order to have a
All of us in public relations who manage people are aware of the importance of connecting with people. Albeit, while all have different styles, the CEO of 5WPR, Ronn Torossian, in his usual outspoken manner wrote an interesting op-ed for FrontPage Magazine, the website of about the differences in personal
Management consulting means helping companies and organizations improve performance, by making use of smart strategies and tactics to fix problems. The job of a business consultant is to attend negotiations and find sensible techniques to close deals without having to sacrifice the integrity of his client’s company. Every once in
While we as PR professionals spin the media constantly, sometimes indeed journalists have it much harder. This week, at least four journalists were killed in Egypt. The prestigious Washington, DC based National Press Club issued a strong statement on the issue “The killings and attacks on journalists in Egypt earlier
With the purchase of The Washington Post by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, right after fellow Billionaire John Henry bought The Boston Globe, the changes in media stand to be immense. And with the billionaire Koch Brothers reportedly in negotiations to buy The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, clearly the
If Zuckerberg’s net worth is not enough to put naysayers in their place,there are mindblowing facts about Facebook that could be.
Yesterday Phil Bryant set off a hullabaloo when he answered a question about children’s’ literacy during a Washington Post Live discussion panel. The question was about how things got to this point: that so many children just aren’t that good at reading. The Mississippi governor responded that the problem of
Whether you noticed or not, FTI Consulting bounced into the top US PR firms contention via O’Dwyer’s list of top agencies for 2013. The space formerly held by either Melissa Waggener Zorkin’s Waggener Edstrom, or APCO Worldwide, is not firmly in the hands of Ed Reilly’s global firm. For today’s
