# Professor Karen Brenner offers thoughts on how companies can effectively respond to whistle-blowers' complaints

1 Faculty News October 28, 2019 ![Agenda logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/agenda192x144.jpg?itok=92gBb23G)>

Excerpt from [Agenda](https://www.agendaweek.com/c/2551003/304613) -- “'The president is seeking to be punitive to the whistle-blower, and that would be absolutely inappropriate in the corporate setting,' says [Karen Brenner](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/karen-brenner), a veteran board director and executive director of law and business at New York University’s school of business. 'It’s my understanding that there’s a strong anti-retaliation protection in government, but right now it’s not being respected.'"

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