By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 9, 2014
Working together, these two can make a crisis management dream team. Apart, well, watchout! Getting your legal and crisis management teams to work together is a frequent topic on our blogs for a reason. Together, these two can help craft the ideal response to just about any situation, but if they wind up at odds […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 31, 2014
Taking marketing too far can create a need for crisis management Marketers are battling to see who can be the next viral sensation, but along with that push to be at the leading edge comes the risk of creating reputation issues for yourself in the process. Video game company Ubisoft found this out first hand […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 30, 2014
Is your iDevice secure? The cyber crises keep rolling in, the latest being a new ransomware attack that affects Apple devices – iPhones, iPads and Macs. Making use of the “Find My iPhone”, “Find My iPad”, and “Find My Mac” apps, hackers have found a way to access the cloud-based controls for others’ devices and […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 23, 2014
Network’s latest hire creates huge crisis management risk Even in an era where many members of the media are more keen on big ratings than credibility, Fox is scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of reputation. While one might expect the network, lambasted regularly for biased reporting and a lack of fact-checking, would […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 21, 2014
Retailer still feeling the pain of holiday data breach A full five months after its enormous data breach, Target is still scrambling for ways to convince shoppers to come back. The big red retailer’s latest move was to give CEO Gregg Steinhafel the boot, allegedly to bring in new leadership that will, “help restore consumer […]
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By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 17, 2014
This is why you need to look at advertising with an eye for crisis management Dove has been quite successful as a brand in recent years, in part thanks to its campaigns focused on women with a wide range of body types. Its latest campaign never went to print, however, thanks to an early reveal […]
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Jonathan L. Bernstein, founder and Chairman of Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc. has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of crisis management – crisis response, vulnerability assessment, planning, training and simulations.[Read more ...]
Erik Bernstein is president of Bernstein Crisis Management. Erik started with BCM in 2009 as a writer and subsequently became social media manager for the consultancy itself as well as for a number of BCM clients before moving to the president position.
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