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The UK water company Southern Water has accepted a fine of £126M from the water regulator Ofwat for deliberately misreporting its sewage treatment and waste water discharges. The Environment [...]

Shareholder activism is on the rise and according to Lazards more investors are using activism as a tactic putting increasing pressure on boards to defend their strategy in the face of calls [...]

Some people invest in a company because they trust the leadership to deliver shareholder value, due to track record and board composition. Some people invest in company because they like the [...]

How should you respond when an overseas hedge fund takes an active interest in your business? Many CEOs treat this as impertinence: an outsider questioning  strategy and competence of the [...]

‘How could we have prevented this?’A question I frequently hear from those in the middle of fire-fighting a reputational crisis. Needless to say at this point repairing damage and [...]

In almost 20 years of writing about the cost of reputation damage and by implication reputation as a risk, there are two fundamental givens. The first is that the value of reputation is only [...]

The decision by Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch company,  to retain London as its headquarters is a blow to Rotterdam and a climb-down by senior members of the board who had been keen on the move.  [...]

The Salzburg meeting would not be complete without a comment on its impact on reputation. On the one hand the reputation of Britain within the EU as it seeks to extract itself within the next six [...]

News this week from the Investment Association confirms earlier reports from Lazards and Forbes, namely that shareholder activism is on the increase. Shareholder revolts against the [...]

Are you surprised  by the defensive response by Premier Foods to the activist shareholder Oasis suggestion that the CEO should go? Isn’t this simply an attempt to engage the more [...]