Logos Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Ewing has been named to the United Nations Global Compact Human Rights Working Group. The Human Rights Working Group, chaired by Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland, provides strategic input to the Global Compact’s human rights work. Anthony joins the Working Group as an academic stakeholder in the UN Global Compact - a policy initiative for businesses worldwide that support ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.

Anthony teaches transnational business and human rights at Columbia Law School and has written about the Global Compact Principles in guides for business including: Understanding the Global Compact Human Rights Principles, and Implementing the Global Compact Human Rights Principles, in Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice (2004).

 August, 2009

Logos Institute executive director Helio Fred Garcia contributed an article to The Crisis Plan section, titled: "Why Having A Decisive Crisis Plan Is To Your Advantage."

Logos Institute executive director Helio Fred Garcia was a featured guest for an hourlong discussion of the relationship between lawyers and communicators on the podcast For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report.

Fred was on with attorney and negotiator Jim Golden.  They focused on the way lawyers and communicators have traditionally experienced friction, and the evolution of the relationship as lawyers begin to see risks beyond litigation, and as communicators begin to frame issues to management as overall business risks.

You can listen to the podcast here (streaming from show) or here (Logos Server).

"For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report," is a twice-weekly podcast covering the intersection of organizational communications and the online world hosted by Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson. "For Immediate Release" is the communication profession's first business podcast started in January 2005. 

May 7, 2009

Logos Institute Executive Director Helio Fred Garcia was quoted in today's USA Today commenting on General Motors' trip for fleet auto buyers to sample the company's 2010 models.  The story focused on recent negative coverage of companies that hosted conferences at luxury resorts. 

The USA quoted Garcia saying, "Helio Fred Garcia, a professor of crisis communications at New York University, says GM has a point, within reason. It's important for the automaker to stay in touch with its customers, he says. But he questions whether GM should have considered doing something else. "Isn't there some other way that at least doesn't look like the things people have already labeled as stupid?" he says. "My instinct is, I would probably advise a client to find some other way to be in a relationship with those stakeholders."    PDF of USA Today

 April, 2009

Logos Institute for Crisis Management & Executive Leadership is pleased to announce the publication of Corporate Crisis Management: Concepts and Cases, edited by A.V. Bala Krishna, published in Hyderabad, India by ICFAI University Press. [follow link, then search for title]

Logos Institute executive director Helio Fred Garcia contributed a chapter, "Effective Leadership Response to Crisis."

Editor A. V. Bala Krishna is a Faculty Associate at the ICFAI Research Center of ICFAI University.  He is experienced in strategic and international marketing for the telecom, automotive, and publishing sectors.  The book begins with an overview of broad principles of crisis management, and then focuses on particular crisis case studies, including Dell, Coca Cola, Daimler Crysler, JetBlue, Taco Bell, Bausch & Lomb, BP, and Mattel.

Garcia's chapter originally appeared in the January/February 2006 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Strategy & Leadership which won the Highly Commended Award at the 2007 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.

March 19, 2009

Logos Institute for Crisis Management & Executive Leadership executive director was quoted in CQ Politics on President Barack Obama's expression of anger over the retention bonuses awarded by AIG.     PDF