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  • IPAN Hill+Knowlton Strategies Named PR Agency for HSBC in India

    IPAN Hill+Knowlton Strategies, India’s premier strategic communications consultancy, has been retained as PR agency in India for HSBC, a leading provider of financial services.

    Following a competitive pitch, IPAN H+K Strategies’ Financial Services team has been selected to handle the entire PR portfolio for HSBC India, including brand awareness, corporate reputation and strategic visibility for its key businesses in India, The account will be run from the Mumbai office, headed by Vinod Moorthy, Senior VP – Mumbai and Head of the Corporate Advisory Group for India.

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  • Andy Weitz Appointed U.S. President and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies

    Hill+Knowlton Strategies today announced it has tapped Andy Weitz as president and CEO of its U.S. operations. Weitz, a five-year veteran of H+K Strategies, most recently served as EVP and global co-chair of its Corporate Advisory Practice.

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  • How to Make Health Care Costs More Sustainable

    This article originally appeared in the May 16, 2013 edition of Corp Magazine. 

    How to Make Health Care Costs More Sustainable
    By Robert Ludke and Hieu Nguyen

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  • Surviving a Social Media Crisis

    The feeling will be all too familiar to many of you: the sweaty palms, the dry mouth, the surges of adrenaline and the head-spinning disorientation. When a crisis hits your organisation, it can test all of your critical faculties. And the bad news is that social media has made the job of crisis communications even tougher. 

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  • It Is Time for Grown-Up Social Media

    Social media is transforming the way organisations interact with all who have a stake in them. Senior executives, marketers and corporate communicators are no longer the sole gatekeepers of public information exchange between companies and their most important stakeholders. And in this "court of public opinion," hard-earned reputations can be trashed in minutes. 

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  • Diverse, Complex African PR Market Primed for Growth

    The article below appeared in the May 10, 2013 edition of PRWeek US. 

    Diverse, Complex African PR Market Primed for Growth
    By: Connie Cho

    Africa is a region that is ripe for business, but industry experts say agencies interested in growing their footprints there should focus on local opportunities and talent instead of looking at the continent as one market.

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  • From Classroom to Boardroom: Campuses Increasingly Driving Sustainability

    With graduation season just around the corner, U.S. colleges and universities will soon turn loose more than 2.7 million undergraduates eager to change the world. But, when it comes to corporate sustainability, many of them have already started. 

    College campuses have always been ripe with ideas for solving challenging social issues, and today’s students are increasingly addressing the issue of corporate citizenship — from in-class discussions about  responsible business to student-led movements to make campuses more sustainable.

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  • April Digital Cheat Sheet - The Power of Social Media

    In their latest cheat sheet, the H+K Strategies Digital team examines the power of social media - from the SEC allowing the use of social media to communicate with investors to the AP's Twitter hack. 

    Click below to view the full scale version and make sure to follow @HKSDigital on Twitter for daily digital insights. 

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  • A Social Media Minute

    A Tweet, in fewer than 140 characters, made the stock market drop over 140 points last week. The cause? An instantly infamous hack of the Associated Press’ twitter feed erroneously reporting a terrorist attack at the White House. The market, jolted by traders and automated algorithms that watch @AP and twitter more generally, beat many on Twitter to the punch, dropping and then quickly correcting itself before the issue peaked five minutes later (over 60 tweets/second.)

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  • Analyst Relations - Predicting Crisis & Forging Consensus

    The recent hacking of Associated Press’ Twitter account mainly drew attention because of the initial impact on the stock market, specifically in relation to the Dow Jones (Dow) dropping 100 points. Public mishaps caused by activity on Twitter - and other social media platforms - will continue to drive a lot of media focus, and rightly so. What has been less commented upon is the silent struggle that the rise of social is causing behind the walls of the Enterprise – inside the board room. It’s a struggle for control, but also for freedom and empowerment.

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