Vanderbilt Chancellor Diermeier faces blowback from students, faculty and city leaders for protest crackdown
Seen as the architect of the university’s ongoing response to protesters, Diermeier faces the brunt of criticism from the university’s various stakeholders. The ongoing fiasco puts the German-born academic in the driver’s seat of an actual reputational crisis, the specific niche Diermeier has spent decades studying as a business professor. He specifically addresses corporate responses to activist pressure and public relations scandals in academic articles and books, like 2011’s Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building your Company’s Most Valuable Asset.
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