Uber, the ride-sharing service that has been the darling of the upstart business world, recently suffered through a brutal series of reputational hits. By any standard, the list of miscues was a public relations nightmare: allegations of sexual harassment from a former engineer; firing of a new vice president for similar allegations at his former place of employment; a lawsuit alleging theft of driverless car technology; and an embarrassing video surfacing of Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick berating — get this — an Uber driver.
Did I mention a second vice president resigned just as questions of the company’s culture and business practices were being raised?…