Communications States
Rhode Island Public Relations: The Ocean State's Communications Market
Giving birth to a tourist ideology attracting new visitors, and guaranteeing those visitors do business with and ultimately live in Rhode Island.
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strategy
PR News
Hillary’s Server Nightmare: She Paid For The PR Firm Her Server Company Hired
It's not enough that Hillary Clinton used her personal servers for National business without disclosing the fact to the government or its citizens.
Insights & Strategy
The Executive Bio That Gets You Cited in ChatGPT
The 250-word bio is dead. AI engines now read executive bios as retrieval anchors. The seven-element format that gets executives cited in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — with named examples from Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Brian Chesky, and Sam Altman.
Corporate Communications
White-Collar Crime PR: How Litigation Communications Actually Works in 2026
White-collar crime PR is the discipline of managing reputation through investigation, indictment, trial, and recovery. The two operating models (transparency vs. containment), the modern reference cases (SBF, Holmes, Boeing), and the AI engine substrate shift that now defines post-matter reputation work.
Insights & Strategy
Public Relations Plans That Actually Worked: 50 Real Campaigns, Dissected
Fifty real-world public relations plans dissected — crisis, launch, IPO, turnaround, litigation, activist, reputation. Mostly B-tier and C-tier organizations. The plans that actually worked, and what every one of them has in common.
Insights & Strategy
PR Resources: Global Survey of Brand Marketing and B2B Audiences
The survey by The Economist Group polled 500 business executives from around the globe and 500 global marketers.
Marketing
Hero Group, Joseph Anthony, and the Millennial Marketing Bet
Joseph Anthony founded Hero Group in 2015 on a specific bet about millennial buyers. A decade later, the operating logic carries through the Gen Z transition.
PR Firms & Communications Agencies
Larry Rasky and the Rise and Reshaping of Rasky Baerlein
Rasky Baerlein no longer exists. The firm split in February 2017. Its founder Larry Rasky died in 2020. A retrospective on one of the most influential independent communications firms in the Northeast.
Financial Services
Fama-French: The Three-Factor Model, the Nobel Prize, and How DFA Built a $740B Firm on Academic Finance
The Fama-French Three-Factor Model, Eugene Fama's 2013 Nobel Prize, and how Dimensional Fund Advisors translated academic finance into a $740B asset manager built without retail advertising.