The phrase "investment banking tombstones" tends to conjure up some immediate associations. Buttoned-up, drab, and probably most of all, boring. A lot of that's undoubtedly due to the word "tombstone". In just about any context, the word pretty...
The phrase "investment banking tombstones" tends to conjure up some immediate associations. Buttoned-up, drab, and probably most of all, boring. A lot of that's undoubtedly due to the word "tombstone". In just about any context, the word pretty...
In the 40+ years that The Corporate Presence has been designing and producing deal toys, we've worked with a large and varied list of clients. Sadly, many of those clients are no longer with us. As we've noted in our installments of the Dinosaur...
The DreamWorks IPO deal toy design shouldn’t have been too surprising. Even now, almost 20 years later, the Shrek-inspired, translucent green design may still seem like an obvious, almost inevitable choice. But it was also a design choice...
In over 40+ years of operation, The Corporate Presence has helped celebrate a number of very large transactions---and created a number of very large deal tombstones. How large? One of the deal tombstone designs featured below tips the scales...
This post is one in a series celebrating some of the deals and dealmakers in The Corporate Presence's 40-years of designing and providing deal toys and custom awards. Another recent post in this series focused on the late Bruce Wasserstein. Along...
Of all the deal toys The Corporate Presence has created for clients over its forty-year history, the design below might seem pretty unremarkable. After all, it's an ordinary rectangle. But it does have all the virtues of a classic deal toy...
This post was originally written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of The Corporate Presence as a provider of deal toys and custom awards. It's also part of a series of posts celebrating some of the noteworthy deals---and personalities behind...
Any time you order an award to commemorate a special event for your company or organization, you obviously want that award to stand the test of time. After all, that’s the entire point of commemorating the occasion: to ensure that years, and even...
The hybrid workplace has been an effective---not to mention necessary---adjustment since the advent of the pandemic, but it's also inevitably presented a number of challenges to both employers and employees. One of those challenges involves...