When you're in PR, it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day dramas, crises and opportunities, and to lose sight of big picture. The name for that big picture is "reputation management." Essentially, reputation management is everything you do over the long-term to protect, enhance and burnish...
In the real world, managing your reputation should be paramount. Showing up on time, being helpful to colleagues, and taking the occasional shower increase the reputation points you can leverage in any number of ways, including career advancement. Many of us spend a lot of time, if...
Worried about your company getting flogged in the blogosphere? Hey, it happens -- look no further than consumer-watchdog site The Consumerist for some chilling examples of companies taking a serious reputation-beating. Marketing guru and book author Andy Beal offers 10 tactics for saving and improving and your company's online reputation. For...
When companies experience a major problem that threatens their business, they need to react quickly and effectively to protect their reputations. Providing clear information to customers and the media can build support and help the company to recover quickly. An important part of the process is having a crisis management...
Your businesses reputation is the most potent aspect regarding the long term success of the entirety of your business efforts. You reform your reputation each day with everyone your business interacts with. However, you have not one business reputation, but many reputations which are created in the minds of people...
Corporate reputation is a 'Soft' concept. It is the overall estimation in which an organization is held by its internal and external stakeholders based on its past actions and probability of its future behavior. The organization may have a slightly different reputation with each stakeholder according to their experiences in...
Reputation has been long researched but there is still no one clear way to illustrate what reputation really is. This paper examines reputation from strategic group direction. The research of strategic groups was begun by Michael Porter when he was studying industry structures. A great deal of studies have introduced...
Why does reputation influence financial health? Firstly, it has the power to create value for a company. The benefits of a strong reputation include the ability to attract customers, employees and investment, to motivate employees and suppliers, and to differentiate the company from its competitors. A strong reputation also helps...
It has been recognized that a company's financial health is dependent on much more than the assets on its balance sheet and the movements on its profit and loss account. Intangible assets, such as a company's reputation and employees, are critical to a company's worth, yet there is no legal...
This white paper offers utility companies a practical plan for responding to fraud, reputation and misconduct risk. It includes common fraud schemes for utility companies to focus on when designing and implementing their Sarbanes anti-fraud programs and controls. It focuses on a five-step Anti-fraud implementation plan and the importance of...
From the executive summary: ‘The quality of a company's products and services is certainly important; so are social responsibility and philanthropy. But, there are so many elements to reputation: leadership and vision, the workplace environment, and financial performance, too. The core of a good reputation, perhaps, is emotional appeal: the...
From the executive summary: ‘The ultimate recruiting strategy is to build a reputation as a great place to work. This reputation can act like a magnet to draw people to almost any area, because the company is so widely respected. The principle works for companies in hard-to-recruit regions just as...
Organizations increasingly recognize the importance of corporate reputation to achieve business goals and stay competitive. In recent years, companies as large and prominent learned hard lessons about how quickly a damaged reputation can harm employee and customer loyalty, threatening a company's financial well being and even its viability. Public confidence...
The article analyzes the relationship between several HR reputation signals (such as being named, “a best company for women”) and corporate performance operationalized as a change in share price. To do this, it estimates the changes in companies’ market values that are attributable to public announcements pertaining to their HR...
Today’s companies are not being judged on financial performance alone. Organizations are also being judged on intangible factors that make up a corporate reputation, such as credibility; a focus on serving customers; high-quality products and/or services; and the ability to attract, develop and retain talent. It is estimated that the...
Casey B. Mulligan submits: Republicans are supposedly the ones who promote "Reverse Robin Hood" policies -- help the rich at the expense of the poor. Robin Hood is supposedly a prototypical member of the Democratic Party. So far neither party has done a whole lot to earn their...
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CEP News and Sympatico MSN have unveiled an exciting partnership in which CEP News will provide economic news content from around the world to MSN's new French-language finance website. Sympatico MSN Finances (http;//www.finances.sympatico.msn.ca) is unique in offering such a comprehensive and wide-ranging selection of financial news, tools and...
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ROBERTO BOLANO, WHO SPENT MUCH OF HIS LIFE in Mexico, was one of the most respected, notorious, and iconoclastic writers in Latin America by the time of his death in his adopted Spain in 2003, at age 50. With poet Mario Santiago, he spearheaded infrarrealismo, a 1970s poetry movement that...
