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Edelman has counseled Harvard University and its PA unit after the turmoil triggered by its first messaging about the Hamas attack on Israel.
Harvard’s initial response was a “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine” which “holds the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all of the unfolding violence.”
The administration was “heartbroken by the death and destruction unleased by the attack by Hamas.”
The response was attacked as weak and out-of-touch and triggered calls for the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay.
Her subsequent statements dealt with plans to fight antisemitism on campus, condemned Islamophobia and all forms of bigotry, reaffirmed freedom of speech and censored the pro-Palestine slogan “from the river to the sea,” according to the Harvard Crimson.
Richard Edelman, Harvard grad, blogged about Gay’s response in a piece called “Why Leaders Must Speak Up.”
If you’re like a lot of people, you have been obsessed with “Love Story,” the FX series that has been airing for the past eight weeks about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. But why didn’t Kennedy use crisis PR to deal with the paparazzi, the news media and the tabloids?
Much is made of the importance of proper planning to anticipate and manage a crisis—but what matters most is understanding how decisions will be made once the crisis is underway.
Slow and procedural messaging without emotional resonance, fragmented leadership communication, overwhelming policy‑heavy language and a pervasive gap between words and observable action have repeatedly undermined corporate credibility.
New York Magazine profiles 78-year-old Peggy Siegal, who was once among the most powerful publicists in the Big Apple, in an article headlined: "The Grand Dame of the Epstein Files.”
