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Guest post: Baruch College’s ‘Dynamics of PR’ panel

October 19th, 2009 at 11:04 » Comments Off

By Alice Fong, Business Editor, The Ticker From left, Jeff Gluck, Peter Himler, Don Middleberg, Bill Southard (photo by Denis Gostev) Peter Himler speaks at Baruch College. (photo ...more »

Digital marketing isn’t stale, but it’s mainly pale and male

October 10th, 2009 at 15:55 » Comments (3)

I don't expect diversity in the New York supermarket business.  Rightly or wrongly, I have long associated chains like D'Agostino and Gristede's as places managed by brawny Italian-American men. In the ...more »

How I spent my summer vacation

September 30th, 2009 at 17:30 » Comments (3)

The whole concept of a sabbatical is foreign to those of us who haven’t worked in academia. For someone who bought his first police scanner at age 14 and who ...more »

An intern’s brain is a terrible thing to waste

September 8th, 2009 at 15:59 » Comments (1)

Chocolate's in the news today.  If Cadbury is gobbled up by Kraft -- or Hershey or Nestle for that matter -- how would that impact you or your clients? With gold ...more »

April Fool’s Day means red alert in newsrooms

March 31st, 2009 at 09:01 » Comments (2)

While Batboy still lives in the form of an off-Broadway musical, I miss seeing his face on the cover of the tabloid Weekly World News, alongside the supermarket checkout counter. Now ...more »

The next auction item: George Washington’s false teeth

March 4th, 2009 at 22:02 » Comments Off

I got my first pair of eyeglasses when I was six. Nearly 40 years later, I still categorize much of my life around the style of spectacle I was wearing ...more »

Forget Latin, CV means ‘candidate visibility’

February 15th, 2009 at 16:45 » Comments Off

Slap a logo on your forehead and practice your elevator pitch. That message is the shocking reality that hordes of freshly terminated workers are receiving as they show up for their ...more »

Why the library is so busy

January 29th, 2009 at 14:09 » Comments Off

As retail leases expire, Blockbuster stores are closing in big cities, small towns and suburban strip malls. The demand for movie rentals from bricks-and-mortar stores is so low, in ...more »

Is the Loch Ness Monster really gay?

January 14th, 2009 at 07:23 » Comments Off

When the Twitter accounts of such icons as Britney Spears, President-elect Obama and Fox News were hijacked earlier this month, the story quickly became one of the hottest topics ...more »

How will drug makers spend their pen money?

January 10th, 2009 at 11:01 » Comments Off

I will miss my Viagra note pad. And my Rogain roller ball pen. And my Nexium coffee mug. Expect to see more doctors and dentists shopping at Staples, now ...more »