Industrials & Technology

January 27, 2025

"Whether they condone, condemn or ignore such comments, some dutiful and conscientious board members will paradoxically suffer personal reputational harm if aggrieved stakeholders feel betrayed."

Public comments made by Cleveland-Cliffs’ CEO and chair against Japan and Nippon Steel that appeared to reference the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki drew swift condemnation and underscore the precariousness of trying to win favor with the incoming administration, sources told Agenda. […] “Over the next few years, we will see a lot of strategic cultural posturing by executives like Mr. Goncalves,” Kossovsky said. “Whether they condone, condemn or ignore such comments, some dutiful and conscientious board members will paradoxically suffer personal reputational harm if aggrieved stakeholders feel betrayed.”

October 23, 2024

We often talk about how the essence of reputation risk is the risk of economic damage from a list of emotional disappointed stakeholders, usually wrapping up with social license holders. Here is a story of one such aggrieved group from Rockdale County, GA, which is trying to oust BioLab from its site after a devastating industrial fire. […] “We can no longer stand by and allow a corporation to continuously affect our current and future physical health, our mental health and our overall quality of life,” Rockdale County Commissioner Sherri Washington said.

We often talk about how the essence of reputation risk is the risk of economic damage from a list of emotional disappointed stakeholders, usually wrapping up with social license holders. Here is a story of one such aggrieved group from Rockdale County, GA, which is trying to oust BioLab from its site after a devastating industrial fire. […] “We can no longer stand by and allow a corporation to continuously affect our current and future physical health, our mental health and our overall quality of life,” Rockdale County Commissioner Sherri Washington said.

October 11, 2024

DOJ Hold Boards Accountable Risk Management. New enforcement plans outline expectations for data oversight, compliance expand the potential for reputation risk.

DOJ has updated its expectations expanding the potential for reputation risk. Under the new guidelines, prosecutors will consider whether companies have a process for identifying and managing emerging internal and external risks related to the use of new technologies, such as AI, and whether they are integrated into broader enterprise risk management practices.

August 19, 2024

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.

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.

June 13, 2024

The last lap of Southwest's 18-month reputation crisis. Activists investors! Link to a podcast on the meaning of all this for your company.

And now, the last bits of the tail of a reputation crisis. “Hedge fund Elliott Investment Management announced yesterday that it has a $1.9bn position in Southwest Airlines, comprising 11% of the company’s shares. It issued a letter to the airline’s board, calling for new directors, a new CEO, more executives from outside, and a comprehensive business review. In its letter, Elliott wrote, ‘While Southwest has a proud history, that history is not an argument for supporting poor leadership and sticking with a strategy that no longer succeeds in the modern airline industry.’” Relevant podcast on what this means for your company: https://5-minute-aventures-in-risk-resilience.zencast.website

May 18, 2024

Boeing Proxy Advisers Split Boeing Proxy Advisers Split. Directors’ personal reputational value depends on how well they meet stakeholders’ expectations for contributing to institutional reputation resilience by dutifully overseeing thoughtful risk management over everything that is mission critical. Naturally, that personal reputation value sinks when influential third party proxy advisers imply that directors’ further contributions …

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