Dentsu has been reeling from an employee suicide attributed in part to horrendous (by western standards at least) overtime hours. Now an Ogilvy employee in the Philippines has died after working long and strenuous overtime hours while ill.  

Marketing can be a unifying force in a politically divided nation, according to Goodby Silverstein & Partners Co-Founder Jeff Goodby, writing in a Wall Street Journal guest column.  “In a sense, the executive order has reversed the corporate instinct to downplay political leanings,” he wrote. “Companies that hid behind the Citizens United ruling to make anonymous political donations are suddenly out in the open.”