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Corporate crises are years in the making

By Stefan Stern

Published: August 28 2006 19:04 | Last updated: August 28 2006 19:04

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Of all the intangible assets that a business might want to quantify and enter on to its balance sheet, reputation is at once the most valuable, most delicate and hardest to pin down. Perhaps this is why senior managers have been slow to take the question of corporate reputation seriously. It seems both vast and insubstantial at the same time.

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