Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In addition, companies must begin to factor deep fakes and other reality-distortion techniques into their crisis-scenario planning. Reputation protection in this new world will require adding a new layer to a company’s rapid response and communications strategies.

Reputation 10

Reputation Company Video Crisis 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Enhanced reputation. Total Quality Management is customer-focused and strategy-directed. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Research shows they can be cut in half. Premium pricing for preferred goods/services. Customer retention. Access to global markets. Faster innovation. Higher sales.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

What he did not say, however, is how that laser-like focus on the company’s strategy also turned reputational risk into an opportunity. Let’s look at how these companies are protecting their reputation and brands while enhancing and realizing strategic value from them. And, what aren’t we doing that we should be doing?

Reputation 8

Reputation Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

After studying the topic of reputation for over a decade, I see Paterno's behavior repeated again and again in the corporate world. Why do otherwise intelligent people seem to believe that they are protecting their reputation by covering up the truth when they are actually making things even worse? The three are related, after all.

Reputation 15

Reputation Management Ethics Risk Management 15

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You maintain a well-earned reputation and are awake to company obligations. You are sensitive to customers’ needs and are flexible and human in meeting them. Body of Knowledge. There is a sound understanding of the relationship of each business function to the other. You contribute much to the economy.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Executives in any business, however, can learn valuable lessons in crisis leadership: One critical concept that we share with the participants in the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard is that every crisis includes many situations , each with different contingencies and considerations. Remember Katrina.)

Crisis 8

Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

The financial crisis that led to the Great Recession unfolded almost four years ago. But for businesses, knowing when to expend time and effort preventing — and planning responses to — low probability, high consequence events is now, more than ever, one of the hardest and most important risk management problems to address.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Our strategy to address the crisis was three-fold. Next comes Crisis Planning. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 75

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

After studying the topic of reputation for over a decade, I see Paterno's behavior repeated again and again in the corporate world. Why do otherwise intelligent people seem to believe that they are protecting their reputation by covering up the truth when they are actually making things even worse? The three are related, after all.

Reputation 11

Reputation Management Ethics Risk Management 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The immediate news coverage is focused on the size of financial penalties for the institutions, on the potential civil or criminal culpability of bank officials and on the reputational harm to both the bank and its senior officers. Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. trillion in assets ,$1.1

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

How will the crisis of problematic loans in Italian banks be resolved? Finally, the global financial crisis has taught us about the havoc that finance can wreak — and how central the industry is to our lives. In fact, the low reputation of the profession only means that people in finance are held to an ever-lower standard.

Finance 8

Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. naqiewei/Getty Images. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

Company 12

Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Just as we gain wisdom from the business failures and corporate scandals, we can learn equally valuable lessons from crisis situations that were successfully handled. The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future.

Crisis 57

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, systematically dealing with the risks of anti-business/anti-globalization proposals and the opportunities of pro-growth policies has become as important for global corporations as addressing product, market, and financial issues. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The exponential growth in executive compensation over the last thirty years, as compared to slow growth in average worker pay, has been at the center of debates about the financial crisis and its aftermath. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics). But these debates have, so far, had little political impact.

Politics 14

Politics Execution Report Risk Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

When both Talbots and Laura Ashley collapsed in the financial crisis of 2008, Sara suddenly lost the vast majority of her revenues. But there was potentially significant risk to Steve’s reputation and his relationship with his clients if the whole messy story emerged. The reputational risk to our firm was very high.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Apparel Absenteeism Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Still, top executives continue to stumble in the way they respond to an attack, magnifying and extending the damage both to their reputation and their customers. The company soon dropped this condition , extended free credit reporting for life and waived the credit freeze fees, but by that time, the reputational damage had been done.

Execution 8

Execution Press Release Report Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Organizational managers and leaders should be worrying about fragility in the face of such shocks. A disruption or crisis that might be crippling for some organizations is a challenge they already know how to handle.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

Businesses who fall victim to these types of attacks suffer a lot of damage – both because they may fall foul of data protection laws and can be prosecuted by the authorities, but also because of the reputational damage. Not many small businesses can afford to shut down indefinitely if a crisis occurs.

Insurance 65

Insurance Contingency Plans Norton Crisis 65

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

JPMorgan Chase's stock fell by $25 billion in the process — that is, by far more than the actual investment losses — and the firm's reputation for integrity and smart management suffered a major blow. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis. And few people foresaw that the U.S.

Banking 10

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The announcement made the board seem oblivious to the fact that these issues have been center stage since the beginning of the financial crisis and, in fact, are of signal importance to the whole financial services industry and, indeed, to all major corporations. They arose in different parts of the bank, not just one dysfunctional unit.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Two recently released JP Morgan Chase (JPM) reports on the causes of the "London Whale" trading losses raise important questions about whether financial service firms can exorcise the spectral issues which were so central to the financial crisis.

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. The risk function can do the same. Protect and manage reputations. Marketing Risk management Collaboration'

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And when Derek had lost his job during the financial crisis, Rogier had invited him to join Contect. Everyone involved had been fired, but cleaning up the firm’s reputation in Russia and in Europe had not been easy. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” But we’re a global company.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8