Jaimy Lee

Legacy, an anti-smoking organization, has long advocated against tobacco use in film.

Multinational companies are increasingly developing coordinated public affairs strategies and campaigns for global issues.

In 2007, OfficeMax partnered with Adopt-A-Classroom, a Miami-based nonprofit, to create "A Day Made Better," an annual event created to support teachers who use their own money to pay for classroom supplies.

Kelly Evans, Wall Street Journal columnist and host of its morning News Hub, talks to Jaimy Lee about how the broadcast program taps into the paper's network of journalists and global news' impact on business

President Obama promised in January to double US exports over the next five years, a goal the administration says could create up to 2 million jobs in the US.

MEDFORD, MA: Biocell Center, a technology company that operates amniotic-fluid stem-cell banks in the US and Europe, is working with GCI Health to raise awareness with mothers-to-be about amniotic fluid banking.

SOMERSET, NJ: InVentiv Health named Bob Chandler SVP of marketing and communications, a new role at the healthcare services company. The added responsibilities will not affect Chandler's role as principal of Chandler Chicco Companies.

WASHINGTON: The US Chamber of Commerce hired Nick Schaper as executive director of digital strategic communications, effective April 14.

Procter & Gamble and Teva Pharmaceuticals said the two companies would combine their over-the-counter businesses outside of North America.

SAN FRANCISCO: Atomic PR worked with Huntsworth to open a sister agency in February, a month before the London-based holding company acquired Atomic for $13.3 million.