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In Memoriam: Ralph Kam, APR, Fellow PRSA

PRSay

Kam worked for decades in Hawaii’s PR profession, including government, health care, financial services and education roles. Perry Public Relations Professional of the Year in 2000 and inducted into the PRSA College of Fellows in 2001. He also served on the Board of Directors in the late 1990s.

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How the APR Changed My Future

PRSay

I needed the framework of a third-party endorsement from a known commodity — with infinite reach, a solid reputation and a well-articulated Code of Ethics. It made our clients’ work easier, better and even financially safer — building loyal customers and repeat business. She earned her credential in 2001. People noticed us.

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Is It Right to Sell Others Short?

Mindful Marketing

However, even with this regulatory approval, the practice should raise at least two red flags, or moral concerns, that lead one to ask: Is short selling ethical? Short sellers are betting against the very companies whose financial instruments they have borrowed and sold, as well as the individuals on the receiving end of those stocks.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

The housing crisis of 2008 spurred largely by risky loans and securitized mortgages, that both diversified the financial risk and cause us to collectively lose sight of where it was precisely, set off the most severe recession we’ve seen in a long time. Then the economy changed. They can’t get into legal, right? I don’t think so anymore.

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The Cherry on the Cake

Maxim Behar

Maxime Behar: It's a unique Code of Ethics that I wrote in 2001. Since the financial crisis in 2008. Voice-over: It's nice to have such friends to ask for a pinch of salt, a glass of veg oil, a horses-drawn wagon, just the little things of life. Radina Dumanyan: Hi Stefan, I'm Radina, nice to meet you.

Course 59
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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias. In September 2010 its then UK head Darcy Willson-Rymer was criticised by Financial Times management writer Louise Kelloway for obsessing about customer feedback via Twitter[xiv]. Table 3: Academic criticism of the Excellence Theory.