NEW YORK: Online reputation management is a top concern for executives, according to a new survey from Weber Shandwick. Sixty-seven percent of top global executives feel that a company's overall reputation is vulnerable online, including how employee sabotage and misdirected e-mails affect a company.

“Business leaders and boards, at a time like this, have to really be more cognizant of how their reputations get built online and how to harness it and be transparent,” said Leslie Gaines-Ross, the chief ...