18 June 2007
Can the private equity industry rebalance the reputational books?

Never before has the private equity industry faced such scrutiny. A once largely unnoticed part of the financial sector has suddenly found itself on the front page of the world’s newspapers and facing a barrage of criticism.

Mike Regester, joint founder of specialist reputation risk management consultancy, Regester Larkin, untangles the key issues being faced by the sector and offers some advice on how it should seek to protect its reputation in the future.

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15 June 2007
Risk Issues and Crisis Management in Korean

Risk Issues and Crisis Management in KoreanRisk Issues and Crisis Management, a casebook of best practice written by Regester Larkin co-founders, Mike Regester and Judy Larkin, is now available in Korean.

This latest version adds to a growing list of international editions of the book which now includes English, Chinese, Romanian and Polish.

Risk Issues and Crisis Management is available at bookshops or at www.amazon.com and other online retailers.

 

8 June 2007
'It just isn't cricket'

Cricket, and its previously strong reputation as an honourable sport, has undoubtedly been damaged by the recent lacklustre world cup and the shocking death of Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan cricket coach. A world cup should be a celebration of everything good about that sport and a chance to strengthen its reputation and fan base. Unfortunately, this year’s event has had the opposite effect.

London consultant, Hugo Nisbett, offers his advice on how the sport can start to rebuild its reputation.

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28 May 2007
RL visits Australia and New Zealand

Regester Larkin founding director, Mike Regester, ran a series of crisis management workshops and masterclasses in Auckland, Wellington and Melbourne, for two weeks from 12 May. The events were hosted by our affiliate partners in New Zealand and Australia, Senate Communications and Scaffidi Hugh-Jones.

In New Zealand they were attended by senior communication professionals from a range of industry sectors including listed and non-listed corporations, government departments and local government. Sectors represented included energy (generation and retail), the oil industry, electricity, property development, finance and economics and the armed forces.

In Australia, the sessions were attend by CEOs and communications directors from NEMMCO, the Departments of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Department of primary Industries, National Foods, Transurban and Australia Post.