What is organizational culture? I’ll know it when I see it!

Like art, we might not think we know a lot about it, but we recognize a company’s culture when we see it. We see evidence of it every day in the willingness of people to work together on a deadline, the empowerment one can sense in a front-line employee and the dogged commitment of sales people to provide the best overall solution to customers.

Maximizing Shareholder Value: Did it Put Us on the Road to Ruin?

By Dan Denison and Colleen Lief

Sounds like heresy, right? Hadn’t we all learned in B-school that profit maximization was the only reason for a firm to exist? Anyone or anything that got in the way of full-throttle, no holds barred financial results was to be ignored, discarded or run out of town.

Daniel Denison at CONARH 2008

Daniel Denison, a professor at the IMD, responds to questions after his lecture in CONARH 2008.

Professor Dan Denison’s view on IMD Global Trends

Pittsburgh Steelers: Family, Faith and Football

 One thing you’ll find anywhere you travel – someone wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers shirt. Steeler fans are widely known for their loyalty and ability to take over the crowd at any opponent’s home field.

So it was no laughing matter when in July 2008 the Steelers formally acknowledged that a major fight over the future of the team’s ownership had broken out in the Rooney family. The team with a storied 75 year history could soon be on the auction block, being sold to the highest bidder.

Dan Denison – Creating a Successful Culture of Innovation

In this IMD podcast Professor Dan Denison talks about: Creating a successful culture of innovation.