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by leon on March 3, 2010
You gotta laugh. After making billions of dollars helping Greece go broke and paying out mega bonuses, Goldman Sachs has come out in its annual report claiming that bad publicity is now now of its ...
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by leon on February 22, 2010
With Toyota president Akio Toyoda reluctantly agreeing to testify to a US Congressional committee, after previously turning it down, it is worth considering what Toyota actually thinks of the US go...
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by leon on February 20, 2010
What does Toyota have in common with the credit squeeze? Was the slack oversight of banks that resulted in recession echoed in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's slack monitor...
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by leon on February 8, 2010
If you own Toyota shares, sell now. These problems are long term.So Toyota is about to recall 270,000 Prius models. According to Japanese newspapers, it has told dealers it will bow to pressure and...
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by leon on October 27, 2009
One of the little observed forces in the economy is the love affair between President Obama and Google.For insights into this star-struck relationship, check this report in Fortune. From the time ...
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by leon on September 7, 2009
He's back! Film director Michael Moore is now cashing in on the world's financial collapse with his latest film Capitalism: A Love Story. In the film, you can see him asking a congressional regula...
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by leon on August 3, 2009
Despite its roaring profits, Goldman Sachs reputation took quite a hammering last month starting with Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone, which I covered here, where he accused Goldman Sachs of...
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by leon on September 19, 2008
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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by leon on June 10, 2008
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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by leon on April 28, 2008
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 consultancy.He has...
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by leon on April 5, 2008
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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by leon on March 13, 2008
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 app...
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by leon on February 25, 2008
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 actu...
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by leon on December 26, 2007
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 ou...
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by leon on December 25, 2007
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 t...
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by leon on December 15, 2007
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 that f...
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by leon on September 18, 2007
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 trashed.Ju...
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by leon on July 18, 2007
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 in...
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by leon on May 24, 2007
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 C...
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by leon on March 9, 2007
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 t...
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by leon on February 15, 2007
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 exp...
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by leon on February 8, 2007
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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by leon on January 16, 2007
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 h...
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by leon on January 2, 2007
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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by leon on December 28, 2006
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 benefit...
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by leon on December 8, 2006
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 o...
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by leon on November 22, 2006
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 multi-...
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by leon on October 18, 2006
More problems for the world's biggest bank with raids on the Seoul office of Citigroup Global Markets, according to news reports out of South Korea.Prosecutors say they are investigating the invol...
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by leon on October 5, 2006
Two significant developments, two significant companies. And initially, it looks like a study in contrasts.California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has charged ousted Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patric...
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by leon on July 26, 2006
How long does it take a corporation to recover after its reputation has been damaged? More than three years according to research from global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.According to the r...
