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Originally Posted by Marcos
call me crazy but I’m thinking their PR department knows precisely what it’s doing. From Wikipedia:
“Comcast Corporation (formerly registered as Comcast Holdings) is an American global telecommunications conglomerate that is the largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue. It is the second-largest pay-TV company after AT&T, largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider.”
Corporations exist to turn profit, not to save the world from itself; pretty sure they don't need our advice  |
I did not and am not saying they at all. In fact, based on the brand they represent, their PR teams have a really tough challenge and I think they do a great job. For example Comcast Cares Day is the nation’s largest single-day corporate volunteer event. That's big. What we're saying is that even if they would want to run a school - which Comcast would want to do for a multitude outside of simply just PR - their legal team has the ability to out the kabosh on it.
Literally every PR/marketing department in every fortune 500 company would like to do things that they cannot due to legal saying no (probably second only to budgetary constraints as a reason for not moving forward with an idea). That's just the way the world works.
I think there are a lot of reasons that a corporation might want to run a school, but PR is likely icing on the cake rather than a driving reason (especially considering the level of sustained investment needed for something like that). Penn didn't build Penn Alexander for good PR. They did it to drive up property values, attract talent, have a lab to test education theory (I'm guessing) and improve the feel of the neighborhood to make the student experience better.
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. But that's a bit of speculation I suppose, for all we know there are other undisclosed considerations that weighed more heavily in their decision.
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