Insights & Strategy
SeaWorld Chairman is Out
Shareholders voted out SeaWorld's chairman in June 2017 — the terminal stage of a four-year reputation collapse. When governance becomes a brand's primary reputation tool, the brand has already lost.
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Governance
Featured
The MDC Partners Class-Action Litigation: How It Resolved
The 2015 shareholder class action against MDC Partners resolved without admission of liability, alongside no-admission SEC settlements by both the company ($1.5M) and Miles Nadal ($5.5M) and the voluntary repayment that preceded charges. How the litigation closed.
Featured
MDC Partners 2015: A Holding-Company Governance Reference Case
The July 2015 MDC Partners and Hain Celestial governance scrutiny period became a reference case in holding-company governance crisis communications. The subsidiary-brand insulation problem, the Nadal and Simon disclosures, and what holding-company governance comms hardened into.
Nonprofit
The Clinton Foundation and the Donor-Disclosure Problem
The Clinton Foundation's 2015 donor-disclosure breach is now the standard case study in nonprofit reputation, governance, and political exposure risk.