The last few months of 2017 saw a seemingly never-ending string of high profile sex harassment allegations against high-level corporate figures. Many of the stories involved household names and recognizable brands. Many of them also had common elements: sordid and salacious allegations making a splash in the media, a news cycle that doesn’t allow sufficient time to respond, social media providing an accelerant to the attention focused on these stories, investigators retained in a shortened time frame and under pressure to find out what happened, and snap decisions on the actions needed to be taken against the alleged perpetrator.
