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How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

Harvard Business Review

An extensive network and other types of social capital can help mitigate the effects of organizational stigma. As our data show , financial executives are punished more harshly for financial scandals than non-finance executives, even when both groups were innocent. Develop strong external networks.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brand councils are comprised of senior executives from a range of company functions: key business unit leaders, influential staff leaders from human resources, marketing, legal, and finance, and sometimes even the CEO. The brand council is charged with using the brand as the lens for strategic business decision-making.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level. . Rogier has too, which is why, frankly, his position on this stuns me.”