Accreditation is not the only way in which schools may seek to boost their reputation.
So they hatch a plan to boost their reputation: tag a New York City icon so that no one will forget them.
An even more fascinating movement among the legacy brands is the movement across brands – the "brand tangos" that boost their reputation through collaboration.
Cooperation can boost their reputation, so they had incentives to cooperate with others such that they may get a higher utility.
Etsy stresses that the card reader and app isn't a "commodity point-of-sale" system, but one that's been designed with the needs of its own sellers in mind, to help them grow their businesses, increase sales, boost their reputation, and better manage their businesses as a whole.
Gangs expert Simon Harding, a senior Criminology lecturer at Middlesex University London, says it's bored young men chasing a few things at once: easy cash, cheap thrills and a way to boost their reputation as junior gangsters.
That more than a third of Pullman porters owned their own homes in 1926 only boosted their reputations as community leaders whose middle-class aspirations trumped their blue-collar realities.
That may be to do with the fact that some winning authors have been little known to English-speaking readers – Michel Houellebecq, Javier Marias, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Per Pettersen were already well-established in their own countries and indeed elsewhere, but winning the Impac certainly boosted their reputations.
Gone are the days when businesses sought partnerships with NGOs purely as a way to grab a little PR sparkle and boost their reputations, and when NGOs looked to partner with businesses solely for access to the corporate purse strings.
For companies that want to boost their reputations, reducing their carbon emissions, increasing their use of renewable energy like solar and hydropower, and clamping down on deforestation are the best ways to act on climate change and prove their commitment to combating it, Brackley said.
