Yeah maybe a lesser one but you always keep your cash cow happy, period.This isn’t true at all. Most successful businesses know sometimes you have to let a customer go.
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Yeah maybe a lesser one but you always keep your cash cow happy, period.This isn’t true at all. Most successful businesses know sometimes you have to let a customer go.
I'm sure it will all be smoothed over will some Cat 5 ass kicking I think she somewhat overreacted anyway.
I would say aside from the financial hit and diversion of those resources elsewhere (maybe even our chief rival) I certainly think there is an increase in reputation risk. Just not good look for whom the entire program is named after to essentially say spending resources on USC her biggest regret.Ok, so let's assume all the worst-case scenario is true: USC either intentionally or unintentionally didn't send condolences for Darla's mom. They have also been willfully negligent in trying to mend the relationship with Darla. Anything that's wrong is 100% the University's fault.
What's the absolute worst imaginable outcome? Will the University go out of business?
He's clueless. He clearly doesn't understand business and politics at all.You take care of the people that take care of you. It’s business.
Well, we have donors not customers. You absolutely make sure you keep your largest donor happy. You think Arkansas would piss off the Waltons, Tysons, Reynolds, etc? Heck no. You think Okie St. would have pissed off T Boone? Nope.This isn’t true at all. Most successful businesses know sometimes you have to let a customer go.
Very entertaining thread.
This evokes memories of when we served official recruits Halloween candy.
your post is laughable.
even if the University had appropriately sent condolences it would be a PR nightmare for the University to come out and throw Darla under the bus by saying she's lying. talk about dumping gasoline on a little flame. absolutely the worst course of action. unlike Darla's childish letter that she publicly release, the ONLY professional way for USC to handle this privately with Darla. then, perhaps, they should later release statement saying they have reach out to her and settled the issue.
i'm not insulting Darla. just calling her letter for what it was.
Nobody else thinks it's strange that we didn't anything about her death until this letter? Didn't see anything about it in the paper this weekend.
Something doesn't smell right.
It was in the P&C April 1-2, 2021. From the Legacy website, at the bottom of the obit -Nobody else thinks it's strange that we didn't anything about her death until this letter? Didn't see anything about it in the paper this weekend.
Something doesn't smell right.
Strange or typical Carolina incompetence?
It was in the P&C April 1-2, 2021. From the Legacy website, at the bottom of the obit -
"Published by Charleston Post & Courier from Apr. 1 to Apr. 2, 2021."
Lorraine Moore Obituary (1932 - 2021) - Charleston, SC - Charleston Post & Courier
View Lorraine Moore's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.obits.postandcourier.com
You were already proven wrong yet you persist with the identical claim.No news media picked up on it? Nobody here knew about it.
Feels like ploy to make the University look bad because she has a bone to pick.
So you make a business analogy then want to debate semantics about donors versus customers?Well, we have donors not customers. You absolutely make sure you keep your largest donor happy. You think Arkansas would piss off the Waltons, Tysons, Reynolds, etc? Heck no. You think Okie St. would have pissed off T Boone? Nope.
But hey...Im sure you're one of the ones that thinks we have a large endowment.
You were already proven wrong yet you persist with the identical claim.
Clemson knew about it, maybe they should ask Clemson what papers they read.Nobody else thinks it's strange that we didn't anything about her death until this letter? Didn't see anything about it in the paper this weekend.
Something doesn't smell right.
Clemson knew about it, maybe they should ask Clemson what papers they read.
She is not a customer, she is their largest investor. Big difference. I would hate to be in business with someone as clueless as yourself.This isn’t true at all. Most successful businesses know sometimes you have to let a customer go.
Says the guy that twisted my words yesterday to state that I suggested Darla was bigger than the university. Semantics? Pot calling the kettle black?So you make a business analogy then want to debate semantics about donors versus customers?
Probably a sign your argument isn’t very strong.
Says the guy that twisted my words yesterday to state that I suggested Darla was bigger than the university. Semantics? Pot calling the kettle black?
Well the people who were high up (also known as the decision makers) apparently disagreed with your "definitely not a higher up" friend. Otherwise , they wouldn't have kept accepting her cash. When did this revelation occur? (her contributions go all the way back to at least 1998) Tell your friend good luck with dealing with those smaller donors to make up for this debacle. Sounds like some of these people need a new line of work. Working with Darla is apparently too hard for them, or we could be talking about plain lazy people sitting back collecting a check. Who knows?
I will also guarantee you that this will piss off many people who are smaller donors. So now you get a double whammy of bad.
From my perspective, it reeks of bad behaviour on both sides. One does not excuse the other.Its hard to believe you can even type that first sentence. Of course there are legit reasons to believe her statements are true.
Just a few of those reasons are:
1. The university has not contradicted the statement. In PR world....silence usually means guilt.
2. She is the respected, largest donor (BY FAR) in the history of the university with no history of mistruths about her alma mater.
3. There is a long and ugly history of these kind of self-inflicted screw-ups at USC. Is anyone really surprised? Really?
4. In these scenarios, usually organizations issue private as well as public condolences. Have you seen any previous public statements via social media, etc. at all? At the very least one would think there would be a tribute post on the Moore School's social media page(s).
Its frustrating to see so many in this thread leaping to off-base insults of Mrs. Moore. This was a royal screw-up by our university and there simply is no other way to categorize it. The impact of this cannot be over-stated. It is a public relations nightmare....just the latest in a string of many unfortunately.
Maybe our supporters, when these things happen, should focus our frustration on the school administration where it should be to demand a beginning to digging ourselves out of this total culture of mediocrity that currently exists at Carolina.
Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates are both top 400 richest Americans. Are you trying to argue that Darla and Richard were comparable to Bill and Oprah?
You are correct. This fiasco has nothing to do with her mom dying per se. What happened here is a culmination of her frustration with Caslen being named president. She is pissed off and rightfully so. Caslen was forced on us by an ignorant and backward thinking foghorn leghorn as our governor. Nothing more nothing less. Also, for the idiots in this thread shitting on Darla Moore's integrity, you are children and have zero clue how the political and business world works and it's glaringly obvious. Just enjoy your degrees in Humanities and stfu.Nobody else thinks it's strange that we didn't anything about her death until this letter? Didn't see anything about it in the paper this weekend.
Something doesn't smell right.
You are correct. This fiasco has nothing to do with her mom dying per se. What happened here is a culmination of her frustration with Caslen being named president. She is pissed off and rightfully so. Caslen was forced on us by an ignorant and backward thinking foghorn leghorn as our governor. Nothing more nothing less. Also, for the idiots in this thread shitting on Darla Moore's integrity, you are children and have zero clue how the political and business world works and it's glaringly obvious. Just enjoy your degrees in Humanities and stfu.
I would venture to say it is minimal.I'm quite sure it has SOMETHING to do with it. Just not everything to do with it....
I just find it strange that nobody in the media anywhere said anything about this until the letter was leaked.
That just doesn't seem right.
It was in the P&C April 1-2, 2021. From the Legacy website, at the bottom of the obit -
"Published by Charleston Post & Courier from Apr. 1 to Apr. 2, 2021."
Lorraine Moore Obituary (1932 - 2021) - Charleston, SC - Charleston Post & Courier
View Lorraine Moore's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.obits.postandcourier.com
The P&C is distributed in Columbia, and I'm sure we have BOT members located in the Lowcountry.
No. No. And no. But I think either you’re missing my point, or I communicated it poorly. Does her money make her more worthy of condolences?Was your father the #1 donor? Give 75 million? Have a business school named after him? It’s not even remotely the same.
Your right. Darla Moore doesn’t possess a fraction of the good character my father possessed. She just had more money. But my father was far richer!I think this is a false equivalency. She's the biggest individual donor for the University and is the namesake for our most prized department, the business school. I expect if the University is going to go show the smallest bit of respect for anyone it would be for her.
No. No. And no. But I think either you’re missing my point, or I communicated it poorly. Does her money make her more worthy of condolences?
That's not proof. It's not in their archives online. You don't find that strange? Maybe someone can find an actual hard copy of the paper from those 2 days. And no news articles anywhere. Again, strange.
The relationship between the University and Mrs. Moore had soured and I'm not sure they had access to the info.
Googled Post and Courier Obituaries -Show it to me under either of those dates under obituaries. I didn't see it.
https://www.postandcourier.com/archive-search/
Maybe there is a perfectly legit explanation. Either way, I would like to know how this happened.
Googled Post and Courier Obituaries -
Opened P&C Obits Page
Clicked on Obituaries drop down - chose Chalreston
In search window typed Moore - scrolled down and what do you know...there it is.
Charleston Post & Courier Recent Obituaries: All of Charleston Post & Courier's Recent Obituaries
Browse Charleston Post & Courier obituaries, conduct other obituary searches, offer condolences/tributes, send flowers or create an online memorial.obits.postandcourier.com
Please just stop acting like it can't be found, or wasn't in the paper. It was. There are multiple ways to search. Just because yours didn't work doesn't mean it wasn't there.