Daniel Diermeier is the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management, as well as Professor of Political Science at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, he is the director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, which is home to the Global Health Initiative (GHI), a partnership between Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine, Abbott Laboratories, Inverness Medical and IDEO.  Professor Diermeier also served as the founding director of the Social Enterprise at Kellogg program (SEEK) and the founding co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).  He is a co-creator and academic director of the CEO Perspective Program, a joint venture between the Kellogg School of Management, the Corporate Leadership Center, and Kellogg’s most senior executive education program.

Professor Diermeier’s teaching and research focuses on political institutions, the interaction of business and politics, crisis leadership, reputation management, integrated strategy, and strategic aspects of corporate social responsibility.  His work has been published by numerous academic journals in the fields of management, economics, and political science and has been featured globally in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Business Week, the Financial Times, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, and De Telegraaf. He has lectured globally on crisis and reputation management, integrated strategy, activists and consumer boycotts, political strategy and regulatory management. He has also led customized programs in biotechnology, energy, financial services, manufacturing, medical marketing, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, media management, regulatory management, security management, and transportation management.

Professor Diermeier is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.  He has received numerous awards including the prestigious Faculty Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute in 2007, named the “Oscar of Business Schools” by the Financial Times. In 2001, he was the recipient of the L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year Award at Kellogg School of Management, and is a four-time recipient of Kellogg’s Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award.

Professor Diermeier is the author of the new book Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset (McGraw-Hill, April 2011), as well as a co-author of A Behavioral Theory of Elections (Princeton University Press, February 2011).

               

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