December 4, 2025
To recruit and retain robust diverse boards, companies need the protection of Steel City Re’s Side R® D&O parametric reputation insurance.
To recruit and retain robust diverse boards, companies need the protection of Steel City Re’s Side R® D&O parametric reputation insurance.
Podcast: Target’s stock price drop suit calling for a board refreshment convinces directors to mitigate humiliation risk with reputation insurance.
In this podcast episode, UnitedHealths’ reputation crisis persuades leadership to increase cyber security-related resilience
There are 45 companies (combined value $10 trillion) on the MAGA anti-DEI hit list.“The worst thing that can happen to a company is: You’re still on that list, but you’ve lost all your good faith and credibility with folks on the other side of these issues.” We call this situation a reputation crisis and a clear need for reputation insurance.
Investors are not good predictors of reputation value loss. At crisis day 155 for Crowdstrike, Boeing, and Southwest, the firms’ equities were -1.4%, -36.4%, and -26.8%. vs S&P500.
Boeing Company reputation crisis day 351. Equity is down 50.9% to peers; Steel City Re’s average observed losses on day 351 is 8.2%. Implications for manufacturers are illustrated in Steel City Re’s 16 April podcast: https://shorturl.at/kEfVL
Boeing employees are striking for…more input into product safety. This labor action is a manifestation of lost reputation value. This labor action is a stark reminder that angry, disappointed employees are one of many expressions of a reputation crisis. Corporate leadership and governors must be mindful that that the long tail of reputation risk typically includes costly investor, regulator, and yes, employee actions.
At the end of reputation risks’ long tail are board-level consequences, exemplified by the denouement of this infamous winter 2022 crisis precipitated by software quality issues, unaddressed. “Southwest Airlines on Tuesday announced an overhaul of its board of directors, including the planned departure of its executive chairman, Gary Kelly, after a meeting with a hedge fund that has called for sweeping changes at the company.” The takeaway: reputation risk management is always a vital governance issue.
5-Minute Adventures in Risk & Resilience: The Podcast Reputation Insurance Forestalls ESG Risk at a $20bn Commercial Services Company: Protecting ESG Value Before Someone Else Challenges It.: In this episode, After Anheuser Busch’s incident with Bud Light, a risk executive realizes that his reputation risk insurance strategy also works for ESG risk. Click on the …
Investors are not good at predicting the net impact of reputation risk. They tend to over or underestimate the net impact on future cash flows on the basis of sentiment and noise rather than on indicators of stakeholder disaffection and behavioral change such as those integral to Steel City Re’s premier reputation risk prediction tool, its Resilience Monitor.