The credit crisis has taken a toll on the standing of various brands. The latest Interbrand Best Global Brands list has Coca Cola as the world's leading brand, followed by IBM and Microsoft. The...
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Toyota, Google and IKEA are the top three in the list of the world's most respected companies, according to the latest rankings from the Reputation Institute.The full list is here.......
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It didn't take him long. Jérôme Kerviel, the trader and computer whiz who evaded Société Générale's electronic risk-control systems has landed a new job - working for an IT...
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Who is to blame for the Bear Stearns collapse?Bear Stearns president and CEO Alan Schwartz has taken a leaf out of the books of former Enron chief Kenneth Lay who complained that business journalists...
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Trust in business has jumped to 58 per cent but fewer people now trust Government, according to the latest Edelmen Trust Barometer.That might have something to do with the war in iraq and the low...
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What impact do restatements have on the share price? Do investors pick up signals before the company decides to come clean? And how do companies that overstate their earnings perform before they...
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As another year draws to a close, it's worth remembering the misstatements and stupid remarks of CEOs during the year. Which makes Wired magazine's 2007 Foot-in-Mouth Awards worth checking...
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What a year it's been! Some chief executives have done some seriously questionable things this year, from the fallout over stuff that's plainly illegal to the idiotic.Portfolio.com presents...
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I have talked about how corporate reputation risk is on the rise. This is a high risk area because it can take years to build up a reputation, and it takes no time to destroy it.The problem is...
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CEOs say attacks on corporate reputation are becoming more frequent, apologies from the boss are losing potency and it takes about 3 and half years to recover when your reputation has been...
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For business, first the good news. People trust business more than government, according to the latest Edelman Trust barometer. The global figures show that trust in business is on the up and trust...
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In light of recent scandals, Fortune's Jia Lynn Ya reminds us how Johnson & Johnson's response to the 1982 Tylenol poisonings is the gold standard for crisis management.James Burke, then...
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It hasn't been a great year for Starbucks.Last month, there were the revelations of the memo from chairman Howard Schultz suggesting the global coffee giant had lost its mojo.We've also seen...
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Every company knows why reputation is important, particularly in an economy where most of the market value of any business comes from intangible assets such as brand equity, goodwill and workforce...
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Significant news that Microsoft has overtaken Johnson & Johnson and topped the Reputation Quotient survey. Johnson & Johnson has been at the top for seven years so it's no small feat.Even...
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Trust in business continues to fall with a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll showing people now have less faith in the corporate world with only 18 per cent of people saying business executives had high or very...
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A profound disconnect between the business, government and media elites and ordinary wage and income earners might explain why trust in business is heading south, according to a new study.It also has...
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Federal prosecutors might have ammunition for legal action against Apple with a probe into whether Apple forged documents to enrich executives, reports The Recorder on the Law.com site.For the...
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Who said innovative companies are the most environmentally sound?Apple has been ranked stone motherless last by greenpeace. The activist group reckons that Apple uses toxic chemicals, does a bad job...
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Google's extraordinary rise has continued with the company's shares rocketing past $500, turning its employees into millionaires and locking its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin into...
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