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What is CEO Reputation Premium, and Why Does it Matter for Your Organization?

It’s hard to argue that the past decade has been positive for CEOs and large multinational corporations. Between a global financial crisis, the spread of worldwide protest movements (such as Occupy Wall Street), and a massive backlash against executive-level compensation, companies — and their top leaders — have faced significant, consistent threats to their […]

April 22nd, 2016|

How Much Incivility Will American Voters Tolerate in the Race to the White House?

by Mark David Richards, Senior Vice President, and Lindsay Gutekunst, Vice President

The American president is elected of the people, by the people, for the people. Last night, thousands of Iowans began the lengthy democratic process of choosing the next president. Just what does it take to be elected president in of the United States in […]

February 2nd, 2016|

Lessons for Brands and Companies in Political Message Testing: A Letter from the Campaign Trail

By Bradley Honan, KRC Research

How do you get your product or idea sold?  How do you grow market share?  How do you simulate the likely impact of a campaign you want to run, before it’s developed?

Marketers, advertisers, communicators, and branding strategists grapple with these questions every day.  What are you to do?

With the race […]

February 1st, 2016|

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: Lessons for the Corporate World from Obama’s State of the Union Address

In today’s media landscape, the marketing, branding, communications, and advertising agencies that support corporations assume that because something has been said once, it’s been heard.  This just is not the case – it never has been, nor will it ever be!

While there are more opportunities to be heard, breaking through the clutter and truly […]

January 13th, 2016|

Creative Qualitative: Eliciting the Most Usable Insights in Focus Groups

In recent years, there has been much discussion on the ways we, as researchers, can keep our respondents more engaged in quantitative studies- trying to find the secret sauce into mitigating drop-off rates and reducing the amount who carelessly speed through surveys.  We’ve responded, in turn, by making our surveys more interactive, efficient, mobile-optimized, […]

January 4th, 2016|

Happy Holidays from KRC Research!

As the end of the year draws closer, we at KRC want to wish you a very happy holiday season and all the best for 2016.  Here are some of our favorite new findings about the holidays.  Click the image for the full infographic.

December 9th, 2015|

Reputation INSIGHT Series: Social Media Crises in the General Counsel’s Office

By Mark Richards, Senior Vice President
Nearly half of Legal Counsel at Fortune Global 1000 companies have not had professional training on how social media impacts their company. 
These days, with instantaneous 24-7 communications and widespread use of social media, corporate reputation threats can emerge and spiral into full-blown crises quickly. One essential member of the risk […]

November 18th, 2015|

KRC Digital & Social INSIGHT Series: Interview with Jen Golbeck, University of Maryland, Pt. 2

KRC is continuing a new INSIGHT series – an ongoing series of interviews with experts in the digital and social media space.  For our second installment, we continued our conversation with Jennifer Golbeck, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and associate professor at the University of Maryland.

Jennifer is a leader in social media research and a […]

August 25th, 2015|

Customer Satisfaction Research: Part 2

In first blog post on this topic, we left you justifications for why companies should be running customer satisfaction research. As mentioned previously, there are many different insights that can come out of this type of research. We’ve witnessed a variety of approaches, from the power of social media to the intimacy of an in-depth interview, […]

August 14th, 2015|

Gender and the C-Suite: The Female CEO Reputation Premium

By Mark David Richards, PhD, Senior Vice President, Managing Supervisor

The success of an organization depends in large part on its reputation. Reputation among an organization’s stakeholders is influenced by a variety of drivers which cluster in three fundamental pillars: what the organization offers (e.g., the quality of its products and services), what the organization […]

July 2nd, 2015|