“There’s a ‘Fanatical Group of Worshippers’ in Your Stock. What’s Next?”

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

Lindsay Frost, Agenda, June 28, 2021 AMC Entertainment Holdings CEO Adam Aron has been actively embracing on Twitter, YouTube and other platforms a new trove of investors who propelled the company’s stock price up more than 300% in the past month. The latest...

Red Corporation, Blue Corporation? Corporate political speech becomes a board issue

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

April Hall, Directors & Boards, 2021 Second Quarter After the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, many companies announced that they would halt political contributions, either permanently or for a defined period. Some discontinuations involved a particular...

In Trump Era’s End, an Uneasy Reckoning for Corporate America

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Jeff Green, Bloomberg, January 7, 2021 Corporate America is parting with its CEO president — carefully. Four years after Donald Trump swept into the White House, cowing executives and shaking markets with tweet storms and tantrums, corporations that applauded...

In face of coronavirus, bankers apply lessons from natural disasters

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John Engen, American Banker, April 29, 2020 It can be “very dangerous to extrapolate success in one smaller crisis” to a global pandemic, said Davia Temin, chief executive of crisis management consultant Temin and Company. Katrina roared in with fury,...

It’s time to face the ‘new normal.’ Here’s how we can begin

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Caroline Fairchild, LinkedIn’s Working Together, April 15, 2020 On the night of March 11, Anna Maria Chávez made an urgent call to her CEO. Chávez, who was the chief growth officer of the National Council on Aging, was watching President Trump announce to the...

‘Sometimes the Crisis Makes the Leader’: Andrew Cuomo and Five Lessons on Leadership

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Kathryn Dill and Te-Ping Chen, The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2020 The nation is watching how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is handling the coronavirus outbreak, and it likes what it sees. Here’s how five crisis communications experts rate and react to his...