max, Author at Rasky Partners, Inc.

Workstyles of the Rich and Famous

By Sandi Goldfarb During the course of my career I have experienced the pleasure and, at times, the pain of working with celebrities on behalf of both nonprofit and for for-profit corporations. Whether they are actors or athletes, politicians or performers, the best ones understand they have a job to…

Larry Rasky on NPR’s Political Junkie

Ken Rudin’s Political Junkie, Episode #43: Destroying ISIS, Drawing Women. September 18, 2014 This week Larry Rasky was a guest on Ken Rudin’s Political Junkie podcast for the “This Week in Political History” segment to talk about his experience as Vice President Joe Biden’s Press Secretary in 1988 and as…

A Tarnished Shield: Week of Bad PR for NFL May Signal Leadership Change to Protect Reputation

By Harry Jacques-Pierre Ray Rice. Adrian Peterson. Roger Goodell. Three names that over the past week have become synonymous with the mounting crisis within the National Football League. As the debate grows over the League’s handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence assault case and Peterson’s child abuse indictment, murmurs…

Maximizing the impact of nonprofit work through collaboration

By Esmael Ansari In the nonprofit work I have done over the years, I have found one consistent theme; it does not matter whether you are a large nonprofit with a stable endowment or a small, local nonprofit struggling to keep the doors open, both are constantly battling for additional…

The Hill quotes Dave Tamasi

The Hill “Lobbyists prepare for ‘two-week sprint'” September 3, 2014 By Megan R. Wilson It’s go time for K Street. With only two weeks left on the calendar before lawmakers leave Washington to campaign full-time, lobbyists are limbering up for a two-week dash that could determine whether their clients win…

From Wolfsburg to Nashville via a small island in Maine

By Jim Cabot I just got back from an all too brief vacation on an island in the middle of Penobscot Bay in Maine. It’s a beautiful place that my family has been visiting for over a hundred years. I have many cousins who have made the transition from “summer…

How Quantifying Everything Means Nothing

By Andy Hoglund When I was growing up, there were two ways to get the Orioles score in the morning. Since we were in the dark ages before Google, you could either wait for the Washington Post to arrive, or watch the 6 a.m. broadcast of Sportscenter. I often sought…

Bloomberg quotes Larry Rasky in article on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s political future

Bloomberg “Warren’s Presidential Pass Leaves Other White House Paths” July 7, 2014 By Annie Linskey Elizabeth Warren isn’t running for president, which raises the question: What does she want instead? “Secretary of Treasury? Let that roll around in your brain a little bit,” said Larry Rasky, who was a spokesman…

O’Dwyer’s: Japan Fortifies PR Arsenal

O’Dwyer’s “Japan Fortifies PR Arsenal” July 3, 2014 By Kevin McCauley Japan, which is in the midst of a high-profile and controversial shift of its military posture, is using Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications to promote understanding of the importance of its relationship with the US. The Boston-based firm’s Washington office has…

RASKY BAERLEIN AND PRISM PUBLIC AFFAIRS MERGING

Top-tier Firms in Boston and Washington to Expand Communications Offerings January 30, 2014 (Boston, Washington D.C.) Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, Inc.(RBSC) and Prism Public Affairs today announced that they are merging two of the leading, independent public affairs firms in the country. The new firm will offer an expanded suite…