John W. Hill (1890-1977) founded Hill and Knowlton in Cleveland in 1927 and built the first multinational public relations firm. His two books formalized corporate PR as a management discipline. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
This navigation index is now part of EPR's canonical Trump hub, which carries the full tier, era, and theme navigation for the entire cluster.
Most companies retain crisis communications counsel too late, at the wrong tier, and without the legal-coordination architecture that makes the engagement work. Six structural moments that actually require an outside firm — and five where they don't.
The canonical Everything-PR hub for Yahoo. The platform that peaked at $125B, passed on Google and Facebook, rejected Microsoft's $44.6B, and became the case file on what doesn't win at platform scale.
