Jack O’Dwyer featured IPR’s 53rd Distinguished Lecture and Awards dinner in his O’Dwyer’s Blog. Ray Kotcher, Senior Partner and Chairman of Ketchum, the Alexander Hamilton Medal, received IPR’s highest recognition for contributions to the practice of public relations on November 13 at the Yale Club in NYC. Kotcher’s acceptance speech “PR at the Speed of Light: Transformation, Opportunity, Responsibility” explained how we are in the business of providing relevance—of igniting engagement.
Institute for Public Relations Distinguished Lecture and Awards DinnerNew York CityDistinguished Lecturer Richard Dobbs, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, delivered the 53rd Distinguished Lecture, “Prevailing Business Drivers: Digitization, Urbanization, Easternization” on the change of the marketplace and media. Dobbs said, “Today and even more so in the years ahead, speed, surprise and sudden shifts in the direction of huge global markets will routinely shape the destinies of established companies and provide opportunities for new entrants.”
Ansgar Zerfass, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Strategic Communication, University of Leipzig, Germany, received the Pathfinder Award for career contributions to scholarly public relations research.
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