In its offering documents, Facebook repeatedly warns of legislative and regulatory scrutiny over user privacy, "which may adversely affect our reputation and brand".
Mr. Humphries said, "It's being brought about by the stresses of the economic boom we've just gone through, but it's affecting our reputation as a good place to do business".
"We have a reputation to uphold so we're not going to let these amateurs affect our reputation," said Marsh.
In fact, it flaunted its unconcern over repercussions by declaring: "We continue to have no reason to conclude that our existing shareholders or potential new investors, taken as a whole, consider our involvement in these three countries, [Iran, Syria, and Cuba]... as a factor that affects our reputation or our share value adversely".
Sprint is more general, banning any behavior that could "cause damage or adversely affect our customers, reputation, network, property or services".
However, African American sororities cannot effectively engage in, challenge, or support any effort to address the adverse impact of reality shows or any other issue affecting our community if our reputation is in tatters.
In its filing with the SEC, Groupon conceded that its accounting issues "could adversely affect us, our reputation or investors perceptions of us".
In January Microsoft published survey results of how our online reputations affect our job prospects.
If you are someone who is always seeking revenge, that's going to affect your reputation.
"When you go through a global recall, you know it will affect your reputation," he said.
