A Stern Glance

You don’t sit at your desk all day, waiting for a phone call from journalists. Similarly, reporters don’t sit at their desks waiting for news about your company. In fact, given today’s smaller news staffs (because of reduced advertising revenues) and their increasingly busy workdays, there’s a very good chance reporters may not even see [...]

Public relations affects almost all who have contact with other human beings. All of us, in one way or another, practice public relations daily. For an organization, every phone call, every letter, every face-to-face encounter is a public relations event. How is it handled, effected, concluded is Strategic Communications, which Stern And Company practices as [...]

 On Sept. 7, 2006, Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, stood before an audience of economists at the International Monetary Fund and announced that a crisis was brewing. In the coming months and years, he warned, the United States was likely to face a once-in-a-lifetime housing bust, an oil shock, sharply declining [...]

That’s an important consideration in the selection of public relations firm: Experience. The larger, national or international firms are filled with experience; much of it derived from professionals who’ve spent their entire careers working for public relations agencies.

Repayment of $625 mln Las Vegas loan postponed – Elad
LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Two investment banks have postponed the repayment of a $625 million loan used to purchase land on the Las Vegas Strip at a record price of $35 million an acre, one of the borrowers said on Thursday.
Payment of the loan [...]

Margaret Maul, founder of Maul Capital Management, a financial advisory firm, died Saturday, August 11. Services will be held on Tuesday, August 12, at King David Chapel, 2967 East Eldorado Lane, Las Vegas, NV 89120. Telephone: 702-464-8570.
Margaret was the only woman in Nevada to serve as founder and chief executive officer of a nationally prominent [...]

Mike Metz, 79, died this morning. He had just published “Shootout at Wall and Broad,” a revision of “Streetfighting at Wall and Broad,” published in the 70s. For more on Mike, go to Shootout at Wall and Broad.
Michael Metz died August 7, 2008. He was 79.
Mr. Metz was a Partner at Oppenheimer & Co., which [...]