Crisis of the Week: Williams, NBC Between Iraq and a Hard Place

by | | Crisis Management, In the News, The Media

Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Journal, February 17, 2015 NBC News, anchorman Brian Williams and NBC parent company Comcast Corp. are the subject of this week’s crisis. Mr. Williams first removed himself from the...

Why female CEOs are staying quiet on activist investors

by | | Crisis Management, In the News, Perception & Psychology, Reputation Management, The Media, Women & Girls Leadership

Caroline Fairchild, Fortune, February 12, 2015 Do activist investors really see women CEOs as easier targets? That’s the question that media pundits and experts alike are abuzz with as six prominent female CEOs fend off bids from aggressive activist...

Crisis of the Week: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

by | | Crisis Management, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management, The Media

Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk & Compliance Journal, December 15, 2014 This week’s crisis assignment is nuts—literally. We asked our experts to look into how Korean Air Lines Co. handled the incident in which Cho Hyun-ah, a company...

When in Crisis, What Should Boards Do?

by | | Corporate Governance, Crisis Management, In the News, Leadership & Strategy

Rob Meiksins, Nonprofit Quarterly, October 9, 2014 In recent weeks and months, there have been a series of crises in organizations ranging from data breaches at Target, Michaels, and Chase to the sexual abuse scandals at Penn State and domestic violence in the...

Crisis of the Week: How Well Did Tesco Account for Itself?

by | | Crisis Management, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management, The Media

Ben DiPietro, The Wall Street Journal’s Risk & Compliance Journal, September 29, 2014 Since news of the shortfall was made public Tesco has suspended four senior executives and called in outside auditors and attorneys to investigate. It also moved up...

In NFL Probe, Even FBI Chiefs Risk ‘Motivated Blindness’

by | | Crisis Management, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management, The Media

Jeff Green, Bloomberg, September 24, 2014 It’s becoming a time-worn script. Company gets in trouble. Public gets upset. Company hires former head of three-letter agency or former prosecutor to get to the bottom of said trouble in thick report. Public...