When asked about their poor public image, hedge fund managers tend to answer with a shrug.
But the national organization instituted reforms, cut its budget and eventually improved its image and fund-raising.
The volumes serve as a guide to the Papers of John Jay website, an image database funded by the NEH launched in 2003.
Cornell Kinematic Mechanisms images have been digitized and are accessible through the RMC image portal.. Funded by the Humboldt Foundation and others, Moon researched Reuleaux at archives such as the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
This dovetails with the company's bid to enhance its image by funding exercise and education programs through its Live Positively campaign.
Taylor secretly diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars to publishing and promoting his books, hiring consultants to refine his public image, and funding his wife's singing career.
With 30 years' experience as a copywriter, broadcast producer and account planner, Susan Bodiker has developed branding, image and fund-raising campaigns for advocacy, association, health care, nonprofit, professional practice and retail clients.
Focus groups and interviews were conducted with (mostly female) development professionals working in Europe and India to assess their reactions to the images (with funding from The Institute of Development Studies Sexuality and Development Programme, at the University of Sussex, UK).
While such a combative public personality as Mr. Icahn's may run counter to the traditional image of hedge fund managers as secretive operators, he is simply the latest prominent financier who has looked to assemble a hedge fund in the last few months.
"It's too early to make an assessment, but we need some time to reflect as to whether or not this could be seen as damaging the image of the fund," he told Agence France-Presse, making clear that he was speaking only personally.
