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Full Rites

Apr 30, 1996

2 min read

Annual meetings often get a bad press, with critics writing them off as empty rituals. And it's certainly easy enough to challenge...

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Encounters: The Firm Belief

Apr 30, 1996

By Staff Writers

5 min read

So why did Wall Street take a dive when the government announced the biggest increase in jobs for more than a decade?' Marcia...

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Governance Czech-Up

Apr 30, 1996

By David Lake

9 min read

It took decades for American fund managers to assert their stock ownership rights in public companies. But in the Czech Republic...

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Dealing with disaster

Apr 30, 1996

By Staff Writers

20 min read

and your stock price is dropping like a stone. Do you panic? Or immediately put into action your crisis management plan? Your...

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Proxy 1996

Apr 30, 1996

By Janet Dignan

13 min read

Like so much else in life, the annual proxy round has become a more complicated affair over recent years. Time was when proxy...

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Benchmarking IR for Added Value

Apr 30, 1996

By Philip Webster

9 min read

Corporate IR professionals, by and large, tend to practise in a vacuum - their own corporate cocoon - working hard to make their...

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Soul Options

Apr 30, 1996

By Ian Williams

5 min read

When the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a group of US executives went down near Dubrovnik, President Bill Clinton...

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Encounters: Tokyo Times

Mar 31, 1996

By Staff Writers

4 min read

I'm thinking of quitting,' said Mike. 'Quitting what?' I asked. 'The agency or the investor relations business?' 'The country,'...

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The Buy-back Boom

Mar 31, 1996

By Neil Stewart

12 min read

Pity poor executives with profits too high. It's hard for many American companies to decide just what to do with all that excess...

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Riding the Rollercoaster

Mar 31, 1996

By Robert A Bennett

12 min read

Imagine being the investor relations officer of Apple Computer, an icon of American business that has fallen on hard times. For an...