failed at crisis communication British Petroleum (BP) suffered a large-scale public relations and crisis communication disaster‚ when an oil-drilling rig accident on 20th April 2010 incurred a spillage of several million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This catastrophic spill has been regarded as one of the most severe environmental damages recorded in the U.S. history‚ causing public animosity and frustration‚ substantially because of inappropriate BP´s crisis communication plan
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What is the global financial crisis‚ and who is it a crisis for? 1.0 Introduction The global financial crisis broke out in 2008 was most serious since the 1930s‚ it deeply affected various aspects and brought significant losses. Analyzing what is the global financial crisis‚ and who it is the crisis for has a important practical significance. 2.0 Causes Reasons for the outbreak of the global financial crisis are reflected in the following aspects. 2.1 Real estate bubble The global financial
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10-17-13 My take on The Take I’ve seen a lot of documentaries‚ most of which I was able to understand‚ when I signed up to watch the take I was not informed that the majority of the film would be in Spanish… Now I couldn’t understand a lot of what the locals were saying‚ however the documentary was narrated thus giving a good understanding of what was going on. Of the limited amount I was able to understand The Take is a documentary following the lives of Argentineans taking back what they lost
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Communication And Crisis Paper Judy Sigona HCS/ 320 June. 5‚ 2015 Marina Voronin Communication and Crisis paper When a certain crisis is going or a situation at the time then the emergency management office is going to be communicating with one another inside of the office and also outside of the organization as well. When dealing with and issue or matter however you look at it no matter what but also sometimes to it can be very difficult for the organization to meet up with one another
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Mattel and Toy Safety Bus 250 Prof. J. Reece Amanda Wagoner November 18‚ 2013 Mattel and Toy Safety Mattel is an American based toy manufacture that was founded in 1945 by Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler. The company has been headquartered in El Segundo‚ California since it first opened. However‚ in 2007 the toy manufacture faced hard times when they had to do multiple recalls on their children’s playthings due to unsafe parts and hazardous materials (such as lead paint) the company faced
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At What Age Should Teenagers Be Allowed to Take Their Own Decisions? The main problem with questions like this one is their‚ on the one hand‚ ambiguity and‚ on the other hand‚ relentlessness with which those who ask them require to be answered. What kind of decisions? About what? If we think along the lines presupposed by the question‚ we should define the unified age when teenagers should be let to both choose what they would have for breakfast and whom to marry. The point of view behind this
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What long-term strategy would you suggest she take regarding IKEA’s continued operation in India? Should the company stay or should it ixi? (Discuss the impact of your decision and how you would manage it.) * IKEA set up a list of ideas as of where they wanted their company to improve in. Included in this list was “working with suppliers” as well as “transport and distribution.” Greater monitoring‚ meetings at the place of production‚ and reports should be a mandatory concept that is stated
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Mattel SWOT analysis Strengths Strong brand portfolio. For the past 69 years Mattel has developed some well-known core brands such as‚ Barbie‚ Hot Wheels‚ American Girl‚ Thomas & Friends and Fisher-Price to become the largest toy company in the world (Hartline‚ M. & Ferrell‚ O.C.‚ pp. 458). According to the company one Barbie is sold every 3 seconds and at least 12 dolls are owned by girls between the age of 3 and six. Because of the high acceptance of the brand‚ Mattel has been able to maintain
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Identify Your Crisis Communications Team A small team of senior executives should be identified to serve as your organization’s Crisis Communications Team. Ideally‚ the organization’s CEO will lead the team‚ with the firm’s top public relations executive and legal counsel as his or her chief advisers. If your in-house PR executive does not have sufficient crisis communications expertise‚ he or she may choose to retain an agency or independent consultant with that specialty. Other team members are
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Take a step back over fifty years to 1961 when John F. Kennedy‚ the youngest president to be elected‚ was in office. John F. Kennedy is well known for many things throughout his presidency‚ with one being his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis against the Soviet Union in Cuba. This mark in history ultimately had our country trembling in the fear of a nuclear war that would affect us all. President Kennedy stopped what would have been devastating for the whole world and not just Cuba‚ Russia‚ and the
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