United States automakers reported robust sales figures for September, with Volkswagen a notable — yet not surprising — exception. Sure, the company’s emissions scandal just broke a week ago, but consumer sentiment is down. So, how do they recover? Can they recover?

Fordham’s Robert Hurley, a professor of management at the Gabelli School of Business, is somewhat of an authority on corporate trust, having written The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High Trust Organizations (Jossey Bass) in 2011, and writing about it for scholarly and mainstream news publications.

We asked him to outline what steps the German auto giant has to take in order to get back in consumers’ good graces. It looks like they’ve already gone through step one (admitting the truth in the wake of getting caught). Watch below to hear the rest.

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Gina Vergel is Senior Director of Communications. She oversees the digital news coverage, public relations, and social media for the university. Before joining Fordham in 2007, Gina worked as a reporter for the Home News Tribune, and The Ridgewood News, where she won Society of Professional Journalist (New Jersey chapter) awards for breaking news and feature writing, respectively. She can be reached at [email protected] or (646) 579-9957.