Weekly Wrap: Merging the GSEs; Does Choke Point Hurt the Unbanked?

by | | Executive Presence, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Women & Girls Leadership

American Banker, November 7, 2014 Among the stories in this week’s Weekly Wrap, Management consultant Davia Temin takes a look at some uncomfortable findings about how successful women negotiate unconscious gender bias and power dynamics in finance, technology...

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...

Roger Goodell has gone to ground

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

Tim Keown, ESPN, September 18, 2014 Roger Goodell has disappeared. In the NFL’s hour of greatest need, its leader has decided to remain silent and invisible. Poof! Vanished. For more than a week, as pictures emerge and indictments are filed and news...

In wake of Target, Home Depot tight with info in breach response

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

Nathan Layne, Reuters, September 8, 2014 Home Depot Inc is being tight-lipped about its possible credit card breach, the opposite approach to the one Target Corp took nearly a year ago. Almost a week after security blogger Brian Krebs warned that Home Depot could be...