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In The Public Eye

Chairman’s letter

Since the financial crisis, the rules of engagement have changed. Many companies have found that they must deal with a far more intense level of scrutiny from politicians and regulators, who are pursuing their own agendas. Companies also have to navigate a more complex and hostile public terrain.

By Sir Alan Parker
12 June 2013

Ready For Your Close-Up

Ready For Your Close-Up

Political committee hearings are often an arena for the ritualistic humiliation of those called to testify. Executives can mitigate the risks by being prepared.

By Andrew Porter
12 June 2013

Deal traffic control

Deal traffic control

Navigating a deal safely home means avoiding political turbulence

12 June 2013

The art of political persuasion

The art of political persuasion

Leadership in tough times is about keeping focused on the big picture and not getting lost in day-to-day difficulties, Pedro Passos Coelho, Portugal’s Prime Minister tells Brunswick’s Rurik Ingram

By Rurik Ingram
12 June 2013

Lessons from the campaign trail

Lessons from the campaign trail

Starting in the early 1990s, something odd started happening to governments and companies: politicians began to talk about performance indicators and targets, and businesses began using the language of citizenship and manifestos.

12 June 2013

Banking's new rules

Banking's new rules

Having been at the heart of the storm as chief UK regulator during the financial meltdown, Sir Hector Sants tells Brunswick's Andrew Garfield about his new role at Barclays and the changed expectations for banks

12 June 2013

City of industry

City of industry

Singapore is a development success story. Choo Chiau Beng, CEO of Keppel, a key company in that story, says critics of the Singapore model have got it wrong

12 June 2013

Reflections on the revolution

Reflections on the revolution

Can social media improve government-business dialogue in the Middle East?

12 June 2013

Soft power and the transatlantic dialogue

Soft power and the transatlantic dialogue

The relationship between two of the world’s most important trading powers is a complicated one and requires an equally sophisticated diplomatic approach, William Kennard, US Ambassador to the EU, tells Brunswick’s Philippe Blanchard

12 June 2013

A more special relationship

A more special relationship

A new US-EU trade agreement will have profound implications for companies across the globe, say Brunswick’s Neil McMillan and David Sutphen

12 June 2013

Master of its fate

Master of its fate

South Africa emerged from apartheid almost 20 years ago, but lately has been straining under the weight of expectations.

12 June 2013

China’s charm offensive

China’s charm offensive

China is taking steps to exert more cultural influence on the international stage. How should this be interpreted by those doing business with the emerging superpower?

By St. John Moore
12 June 2013

Pressure management

Pressure management

Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank is a keen advocate of public-private infrastructure partnerships. Here he explains how building social consensus early can avoid later resistance.

12 June 2013

Rules of attraction

Rules of attraction

Governments that have set clear rules for the private sector have benefited from infrastructure investment. Francis Yeoh, Managing Director of YTL – one of Malaysia’s largest companies – argues that others would do well to follow suit.

12 June 2013

The bank job

The bank job

One of the most lobbied men in Brussels, European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, has a continent of constituents to consider interview by Philippe Blanchard, Brunswick, Brussels

12 June 2013

Truth, justice, and the American conversation

Truth, justice, and the American conversation

“Facts are stubborn things,” John Adams, one of America’s Founding Fathers, once famously remarked. For Alan Murray, life after The Wall Street Journal means a pursuit of pure facts, as he takes up his new role as President of the Pew Research Center.

By Darren McDermott
12 June 2013

Global M&A outlook: let’s make a deal

Global M&A outlook: let’s make a deal

The 6th Annual Brunswick Group M&A Survey polled more than 100 top bankers and their deal advisers in the US, Greater China and Europe about their expectations for deal trends, opportunities, and challenges in 2013.

12 June 2013

Brazil after the hype

Brazil after the hype

After riding high on the BRICs story, Brazil is slowly but surely working out its own development narrative, Vera Brandimarte, Editor-in-Chief of the country’s most influential business newspaper tells Brunswick’s Ana Paula Pessoa and Thomas Kamm

By Thomas Kamm
12 June 2013

Where knowledge is free

Where knowledge is free

Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum and creator of the widely acclaimed series, A History of the World in 100 Objects, tells Brunswick’s David Yelland about running the “lending library of the world”

12 June 2013

A cyberspace odyssey

A cyberspace odyssey

From live-streaming in outer space to fugitive-hunting on American streets, social media now dominates the public conversation. Mashable’s Pete Cashmore and Lance Ulanoff explore

12 June 2013

Troy Carter: Taming the fame monster

Troy Carter: Taming the fame monster

Lady Gaga’s manager tells Brunswick’s David Sutphen about building social networks, the changing face of music and what brands can learn from Little Monsters

12 June 2013

Winning the argument, losing the deal

Winning the argument, losing the deal

At the Bretton Woods talks that shaped the post-Second World War financial world, British economist John Maynard Keynes was charged with securing terms that best suited his country.

12 June 2013

The shock of the new

The shock of the new

The first standards war of the modern era, between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, had some macabre consequences by Robert Moran, Brunswick, Washington, DC

By Robert Moran
12 June 2013

Critical moment

Critical moment

Snapshot of a communications turning point November 6 2012

12 June 2013

Online Only: Piecing Together the Digital Mosaic

Online Only: Piecing Together the Digital Mosaic

For analysts and investors, making investment decisions involves gathering many disparate pieces of information and assembling these nuggets into a mosaic that ultimately guides their choices.

12 June 2013

Issue Credit

  • Jackie Shorey - Editor
  • Georgina Brackstone - Project manager
  • Lotta Nieminen - Cover illustration