Within the crisis communication literature a bandrui of exemplary" crisis responses from CEOs have been studied and applauded. including Tylenol James Burke and his bundling of the cyanide tampering of 1982. which Fortune magazine described as"the gold standard in crisis control" Other models of effective crisis management include CEO of Malden Mills Aaron Feuerstein's response to the 1995 factory fire and Milt Cole's response to Cole Hardwoods' 1998 fire. Seeger and Ulmer applaud these CEOs for their "virtuous" responses to their respective organizational tragedies. These exemplary cases involve a leader, usually a CEO, responding quickly and ethically to an organizational crisis. In Locker's 1999 article, she suggested that buffers should not continue to be used in bad news messages, particularly the closing buffer, explaining that a bad news message with a strongly positive end engendered negative feelings. By combining the insights gained from exemplary examples in crisis communication research with the underpinnings of POB research, we can create a new model of offering bad news messages that can assist business communication professionals in teaching students more options for delivering bad news.