Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies

Master of Professional Studies in Public Relations and Corporate Communications

Reputation Management

It is arguably the most important of assets, and the most difficult to control: reputation.   Whether it's in sales, fundraising, recruiting or the stock price, an organization's reputation has a profound, unrelenting impact.   Yet – in an increasingly digital, democratized communications environment – leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to manage this most valuable of assets.  And – more than ever – communications professionals are being asked to not only "manage" a reputation, but to drive it. 

 

This course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of reputation management – in particular the best practice strategies and cutting-edge tools being used by today's leading communications practitioners.  Through historical case-study review, in-class discussion of real-time reputation issues in the news and a series of simulation exercises, students will learn how to develop and implement integrated reputation-building programs in an area that often is, for senior executives, the #1 communications issue.  

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