Crisis management at Goldman Sachs: Whistle-blower or disgruntled Employee?
Publication Type
Case
Publication Date
9-2012
Abstract
Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Gary D. Cohn, President and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, would be ambushed with a resignation letter from one of their own executives published publicly in the Op-Ed pages (p. A27) of the New York Times on March 14, 2012. Blankfein and Cohn would take action immediately and fire off a letter to its 30,000 employees defending Goldman Sachs and everything the firm stood for in response to Smith’s letter.
Keyword(s)
investment banking, crisis management, corporate governance
Discipline
Business | Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics | Finance and Financial Management
Data Source
Published Sources
Industry
Investment Banking
Geographic Coverage
United States of America
Temporal Coverage
1869-2012
Education Level
Executive Education; Postgraduate; Undergraduate
Publisher
Singapore Management University
Case ID
SMU-12-0023
Additional URL
https://cmp.smu.edu.sg/case/2021
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