Thompson's murder illustrates the serious dangers facing business leaders who find themselves regularly enveloped in public scorn over their company's actions.
UnitedHealthcare removed a page from its website listing the rest of its executive leadership, and several other health insurance companies have done the same, hiding the names and photos of their executives from easy public access.
At Premier, a $2 billion market-cap health care company in North Carolina, executives are formulating plans to bolster security: "Where it makes sense, I don't think we want to overreact, but we do want to make sure all our senior executives and any of our employees are kept safe."
Yale management expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who runs an annual summit called the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, told the NYT he has been deluged with calls about safety at the next edition of his event this month.
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