Alex Harris

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Fly by Night?

Alex Harris posted an article on - Jan 2, 2012, 6:40 pm
As sexy as the headline ‘world’s safest airlines’ is, is the ranking useful? What risk criteria was assessed, and...
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Damage Control

Alex Harris posted an article on - Oct 5, 2011, 10:55 pm
Few if any companies treat reputation as a strategic issue; few if any line managers know precisely their division’s role in enhancing and defending the company’s reputation. Every single one should.
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Rio Tinto Controlled the Government of PNG: Bougainville Revisited

Alex Harris posted an article on - Jun 26, 2011, 5:28 am
As Rio Tinto gears up to reopen the giant copper mine at Panguna, I offer a little reminder to the shareholders salivating over potential gains on the stock forums like Hot Copper… Rio Tinto has eroded all trust in its operations on the island of Bougainville. It is a difficult position from which...
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CSR Research: Extractive Industries PNG

Alex Harris posted an article on - Mar 20, 2011, 9:56 pm
The argument in favour of the many resources projects operating in and proposed for Papua New Guinea (PNG) is that these projects deliver economic benefits to a country in desperate need. But do they?
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SGX, Lies and Videotapes

Alex Harris posted an article on - Dec 4, 2010, 3:36 am
The announcement late October 2010 of the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) takeover of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) created a ripple of dissonance in some circles. But would it do a worse job than the ASX in regulating the...
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GM Food Industry MO

Alex Harris posted an article on - Nov 16, 2010, 8:49 pm
Producing food used to be about feeding people; today it is about cost savings and production volumes. Farmers we trusted with feeding us have traded biodiversity for monoculture; soils rich with...
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CSR=Sustainability=An Economic Imperative

Alex Harris posted an article on - Nov 7, 2010, 4:16 pm
Ethical Investments beat the market - guided by environmental, social and governance criteria. There is a distinct shift globally in the investing and regulatory mood. No longer can companies...
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Feed Problems: Subscribe by Email

Alex Harris posted an article on - Nov 2, 2010, 1:27 am
This is an administrative note for Reputation Report. Due to ongoing problems with Feedburner not sending out current posts to subscribers, we have discontinued this service. Hence, updates will now be sent directly from this website as an email alert simply letting you know when there is a new feat...
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Brand Strength Does Not = Reputation

Alex Harris posted an article on - Oct 29, 2010, 1:41 am
Reputation speaks of the esteem held for a company – whether people recommend it as a place to work, a company to do business with, or to have manage a project in your community. A good reputation has direct and positive impact on the bottom line in terms of sales, staff turnover, cost of sales
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China Rising: Your Reputational Risks With it

Alex Harris posted an article on - Oct 22, 2010, 1:42 am
The rapid rise of China as a supply centre has seen its own ‘off-shoring’ to cheaper labour locations with even more lax environmental regulations such as PNG. Highlands Pacific-MCC Ramu and Marengo Mining Yandera
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Mine Waste War – Reputation Under Fire

Alex Harris posted an article on - Sep 23, 2010, 1:16 am
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) report on DSTP in PNG shows environmental impacts from Lihir, Misima and soon Ramu and Yandera. Highlands Pacific
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Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity: Australian (& Rio Tinto) Way

Alex Harris posted an article on - Jul 28, 2010, 5:22 pm
The degradation of environments that accompanies economic development, especially in places like PNG where Rio Tinto's Bougainville Copper...
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Reputational Risk Inseparable from Environmental Risk

Alex Harris posted an article on - May 23, 2010, 9:30 pm
While the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill steals the headlines, it is only one of many environmentally devastating activities from the likes of Placer Dome...
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Why Bother? Australian Wildlife: Pests

Alex Harris posted an article on - Mar 26, 2010, 1:36 am
That Tourism Australia capitalises on the value foreigners place on our wildlife proves the economic value they bring...
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Sustainability: ESRI Australia's Driver for Innovation

Alex Harris posted an article on - Mar 13, 2010, 10:06 pm
One of the leading drivers of innovation today, and one that is reaping benefits way beyond a new product or service, is sustainability. ESRI Australia is...
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A New Capitalism, Free of Friedman

Alex Harris posted an article on - Mar 7, 2010, 4:00 pm
For a number of years now I have argued the case for integration of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into the DNA of the corporation. CSR is not a marketing fad, a necessary evil or a “check the boxes” exercise.
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Go Tiger, More Power to You!

Alex Harris posted an article on - Feb 2, 2010, 3:00 pm
Say the words reputational crisis or scandal, and Tiger Woods comes to mind. It is easy to pick apart and deride the strategy in the days that followed the...
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IPCC: Inglorious Basterds

Alex Harris posted an article on - Jan 31, 2010, 4:00 pm
We were conned. I thought the scientists couldn't be wrong. Little did I know they used no science, indulged in carbon trading, and established businesses that could profit...
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Hey Volvo, Customer Service the heartbeat of Reputation

Alex Harris posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 10:50 pm
If reputational risk is anything that has the potential to damage existing customer relationships and the ability to build new relationships; if it causes a loss of current orders and future sales, then reputation management could be represented as being front and centre about sales.
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Sustainability Reporting

Alex Harris posted an article on - Sep 13, 2009, 5:25 pm
Of the 28 Australian companies shortlisted in the 2009 ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards, 28% were from the energy and utilities sector and...
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Philip Morris: The Milton Friedman Ideal

Alex Harris posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 11:05 pm
It is specious to argue, as Friedman and his followers do, that businesses shouldn't focus on anything but profit, with the assumption social welfare naturally follows...
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Power to the People: Dave vs United Airlines

Alex Harris posted an article on - Aug 11, 2009, 9:49 pm
Twitter led the Iranian election fall out and the meltdown of Twitter itself led the news last week. But more significantly, headlining for the past few weeks has been Dave Carroll. Dave (as you would all know by now) had the misfortune of flying United Airlines a year ago, wherein baggage handlers ...
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Stop Chopping Down the Bloody Trees!

Alex Harris posted an article on - Aug 9, 2009, 4:30 pm
Climate Change is one of those great big ugly controversial topics in polite conversation for me, as too many people I respect or call friend disagree on whether it is happening. I can’t say who is right, and certainly I don’t need to be. It is a fact the science is sometimes wrong. If one
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