New business is what makes us very happy, because it is brainfood for the mind and soul. So we’ve been pigging out in February, a month of intensive learning, with topics ranging from music to advocacy, NGOs to personal care (all our new wins are confidential, but think pharma and cause). If you don’t love [...]
Feb 26, 2013 | Categories:Agency News, Fashion, Health and Wellness, PR | Tags: advocacy, brainfood, cause, change, CSR, learning, Music, new business, NGO, personal care, pharma | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the 13th in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, was published on 12/12/12 and is available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Jan 22, 2013 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Technology, Trends | Tags: addiction, adrenal fatigue, always on, choice, chronic fatigue syndrome, citizens, compassion fatigue, conscience fatigue, decision fatigue, disaster, donor fatigue, ego fatigue, fatigue, green, green fatigue, hyperconnectivity, Internet, nonprofits, organic, stress, Technology, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, What's Next?, willpower, words | Leave A Comment »
[Originally published on Stamford magazine's website.] Last year, I took the risk of being blackballed by a nation of rabid fans of the pigskin (and more than a few friends of my own) to ask the question: What is the future of football? In light of all the life-threatening injuries and dangerously destructive playing across [...]
Jan 03, 2013 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Insights, Trends, Youth | Tags: brain injury, brain trauma, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, concussion, CTE, Dave Duerson, football, Football High, high school, Jovan Belcher, Junior Seau, kids, Lystedt Laws, NFL, safety, Sandy Hook, Stamford, The New York Times, Youth | Leave A Comment »
Each year as my family sits around the dinner table at the holidays, my father, a Vietnam veteran, takes a moment to remember our troops. It’s always a special reminder about how lucky we are to be celebrating the holidays with our family and that it is in huge part thanks to the men and [...]
Dec 12, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness | Tags: 12 Days of Havas, Bob Woodruff Foundation, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Havas PR, post-traumatic stress, Stand Up For Heroes, traumatic brain injury | Leave A Comment »
When we were bouncing around ideas for our holiday initiative, one thing we really wanted to achieve was not only working on programs that represent our corporate values but also spreading our wings to work on projects that our staff are passionate about. Havas PR has been committed to supporting the military and our veterans [...]
Dec 10, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness | Tags: 12 Days of Havas, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Havas PR, Home Base Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Red Sox Foundation | Leave A Comment »
Sometimes in life, without any real explanation, you happen to find your perfect match. That’s what happened when we reached out to Delete Blood Cancer, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center, as part of our 12 Days of Havas. Delete Blood Cancer was in the process of revamping its marketing approach with a new [...]
Dec 07, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness, Marketing, PR, Social Media | Tags: 12 Days of Havas, blood cancer, bone marrow donor, Coty, Delete Blood Cancer, donor registry, Havas PR, Katharina Harf, Peter Harf | Leave A Comment »
I have been volunteering with children’s charities in New York City for almost a decade, but none has touched me as much as my recent visits to the Ronald McDonald House on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Founded in 1978, the Ronald McDonald House of New York provides temporary housing for pediatric cancer patients and their [...]
Dec 07, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness | Tags: 12 Days of Havas, children, Havas PR, kids, New York City, pediatric cancer, Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald House of New York | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the second in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, will be published on 12/12/12 and available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Dec 06, 2012 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: 120M Books, annual trends report, Appreciative Inquiry, brain, CEO, Chade-Meng Tan, evolution, Google, Havas PR North America, negative campaigning, negativity, news, optimism bias, positive, positive psychology, positivity, pragmatic, resilience, Richard Branson, Tony Hsieh, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, Virgin, What's Next?, worries, Zappos | Leave A Comment »
With our fast-paced lives and the current economic uncertainty, it’s no surprise that a new study shows that work-related stress is on the upswing. Living in this digital age and its expectation of constant reachability is partly to blame; a report from the University of Michigan said that most college students are physically unable to [...]
Nov 21, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: addictions, cellphone, digital addiction, digital age, digital devices, Magic Mind, stress, the economy, University of Michigan, Windows 8, work-related stress | Leave A Comment »
It seems as if not a day goes by that an unlucky patron finds something exceptionally off-putting in his fast-food meal. Fortunately, the fast-food industry has responded and begun moving in a pretty surprising direction for the business: quality. Industry leader McDonald’s has put out an ad campaign that focuses on its ingredients and puts [...]
Nov 07, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Trends | Tags: all-natural, Chipotle, fast food, hormone-free, McDonald's, Quiznos, Wendy's | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] It used to be that if you were famous and you screwed up, the path to redemption was clear: Hire an old-school, big-name publicist to keep yourself out of the news for a while, then orchestrate a high-profile comeback (think a self-deprecating turn on “Saturday Night Live”) to prove that you’re [...]
Nov 01, 2012 | Categories:Brands, CSR, Features, Health and Wellness, PR, Social Media | Tags: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Brands, change, charity, crisis communications, David Letterman, Forbes.com, Haiti, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong, Michael Vick, Nike, personal branding, personal brands, publicist, reboot, Ted Kennedy, Tiger Woods, transparency, Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti, YouTube | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Havas Social.] It’s October—and to many that means football, pumpkins and German brew. It also means breast cancer awareness. Despite the seeming oversaturation of pink in recent years, I regret to admit that National Breast Cancer Awareness Month never really hit home for me. That is, until this year, when it literally [...]
Oct 29, 2012 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Insights, Social Media, Technology | Tags: "Bang the Drum", blogosphere, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Sisterhood, Brenda's Blog, cancer, Ford Warriors in Pink, Havas Social, Models of Courage | Leave A Comment »
Childhood obesity is back in the spotlight after a new report called “Still Too Fat to Fight” said the “junk food sold in schools” is a “national security issue.” Targeting cafeteria lunches as the root of the child weight epidemic has become a growing movement after British chef Jamie Oliver displayed the depressing quality of [...]
Oct 27, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Leave A Comment »
As a guy living in New York City and turning 30 next year, I spend a little more time at the gym, have a bit more seniority in my career and each day am further from caring about what Demi Lovato is up to. After all, I was raised on the real music of Britney [...]
Oct 23, 2012 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Tags: Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Euromonitor International, gender, grooming, Madonna, male cosmetics, men, metrosexual, Sephora, skin care, South Korea | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] The words “business” and “business leader” often conjure up Dow Jones–size companies and the big names who lead them. We’re almost as fascinated by stars of big business as by stars of the big screen. And why not? A recent Forbes article pleading “Bring Back the Celebrity CEO” makes the case [...]
Oct 22, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, apps, Bill Gates, blog, branding, Burnt Peaks, business, business leader, CEOs, Chris MacAskill, community, company brands, customers, Dollar Shave Club, Don MacAskill, Facebook, fitness, Forbes, Internet, iPhone, James Mairs, Jeff Bezos, King of Shaves, Meg Whitman, personal branding, personal brands, Phil Knight, purpose, Queen of Shaves, Richard Branson, RunKeeper, Silicon Valley, small businesses, SmugMug, Social Media, taking risks, Tony Hsieh, Twitter, Venture for America, Will King, Zappos | Leave A Comment »
As technology evolves and the economy drives much of our lives, the importance of (and even the definition of) a millennial continues to change. The dictionary defines a millennial as someone born during the 1980s and 1990s, but—as I can attest, since I’m a member of this demographic and work for an agency that has [...]
Oct 11, 2012 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: adolescents, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, Michael Bloomberg, millennials, Milwaukee, New York City, obesity, Pittsburgh, school lunches, soda ban, sugar, Technology, Teens, Twitter, YouTube | Leave A Comment »
Liquid calories appear to affect the body—and the conscious—differently than solid ones; we’re less likely to make up for the calories consumed in a beverage by eliminating calories elsewhere in our diet. So it’s little wonder that, as consumption of sugary drinks has ballooned, many organizations have set out to see that drink sizes be [...]
Sep 12, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Politics, Trends | Tags: Center for Science in the Public Interest, childhood obesity, health trends, Kick the Can, Life’s Sweeter challenge, liquid calories, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, obesity epidemic, PSAs, public health initiatives, soda war, sugary drinks | Leave A Comment »
By now most of us have been hit up many times over to help bankroll a friend’s new album or book (or stackable soap!) through sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and the donation-based crowd-funding trend isn’t going anywhere, unless you count the surprising new directions entrepreneurs are taking it. Nearly $3 billion is expected to [...]
Sep 11, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: comic trends, Comics Accelerator, crowd funding, crowd funding fertility, crowd investing, crowd-funding platforms, crowd-funding research, crowd-funding trends, fertility treatments, fertility trends, Indiegogo, inventing, inventors, jobs act, Kickstarter, stackable soap | Leave A Comment »
If you’ve ever been put off by a high-and-mighty health nut, you’re not alone. A new study confirms that those who follow pristine eating plans—particularly when eating all-organic all the time—feel “self-righteous” about their “moral behavior.” Despite those drawbacks, organic foods have helped some family farms stay profitable in an age when agriculture has largely [...]
Sep 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Trends | Tags: American consumers organic, American food sales, American survey, food trends, health food trends, health trends, nutrition trends, organic, organic foods, organic snobs, organic trends, pesticides, wellness trends | Leave A Comment »
Our sister company Havas Worldwide Health has just released a white paper, “Helping Hands for Primary Healthcare,” based on a study the agency administered to a broad range of people working in primary healthcare. To better understand the changing conditions facing primary care physicians, who are confronting more challenges than perhaps any other group in [...]
Aug 27, 2012 | Categories:Agency News, Health and Wellness, Technology, Trends | Tags: alternative medicine, digital technology, Havas Worldwide Health, healthcare, PCPs, prevention, primary care physicians, primary healthcare, U.S. healthcare | Leave A Comment »
Our propensity to be sweet as pie—or not—may be genetic. In a new survey, researchers asked whether participants agreed with statements like “Human nature is basically good” and evaluated their charitable behaviors while also combing their DNA for the presence of genes associated with social behavior. The study found that we’re less likely than ever [...]
Aug 23, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, CSR, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: A/A oxytocin receptor, A/G oxytocin receptor, airline, CEO trends, charity, CSR, CSR trends, customer service, Harvard Business Review, kindness, oxytocin, oxytocin kindness, oxytocin trust, psychology, science, workplace trends | Leave A Comment »
Time’s controversial breastfeeding cover gave further ammunition to the ongoing mom wars, but did you know there are dad wars, too? It’s true; 16 percent of American preschoolers are cared for by stay-at-home dads, and many of these dads complain that they’re plagued by assumptions that they’re not cut out for the job or that [...]
Aug 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: American dads, Australian dads, breastfeeding, dad, dad wars, fatherhood, fathers, Filipino men, mom wars, moms, mothers, parenting trends, parents, Time breastfeeding | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] Who’s kidding whom? Reading through my company’s latest Prosumer Report, “Aging: Moving Beyond Youth Culture,” I was struck that around three-quarters of respondents to our 19-country survey say they intend to age gracefully rather than fight it every step of the way. Yet, as the report points out, pharmacies are stocked [...]
Aug 20, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness, Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: "Aging: Moving Beyond Youth Culture", aging, anti-aging, BCC Research, brain, brain health, Canada, communications, consumers, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Daniel Kahneman, Edward Bernays, euro rscg, Fast and Slow, Forbes.com, gratification, marketers, Marketing, Michael Bloomberg, mobility, Neuromarketing, Nobel Prize for Economics, old age, Prosumer Report, Robert Trivers, Thinking, unconscious desires, United States, Youth, youthful | Leave A Comment »
Good news: The number of fatal crashes in the States declined nearly 2 percent last year—the lowest percentage of highway deaths since 1949. Safety experts attribute this to fewer people driving in a tough economy, better safety equipment in cars, plus successful efforts to curb drunk driving and encourage seat belt usage. However, a mild [...]
Aug 17, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: car accident, car accident trends, car animal collisions, car collisions, car crash, car crash trends, car wreck, cell phone while driving, distracted driving, drunk drivers, sleepy drivers, texting while driving, United States car accidents | Leave A Comment »
