Client Testimonials

"Our history shows our community and business partners the kind of people we are, as well as what we've accomplished as a firm. We use our 100-year history in new markets we enter, in legislative lobbying and in marketing our corporate finance and public finance services."
Addison Piper, Chairman and CEO, Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc., now a subsidiary of First Bank System

"Pure and simple, we use our history to help explain why we do things the way we do."
Michael Sullivan, President and CEO, International Dairy Queen

"Our history has helped us examine our values and reaffirm them. We used historical research to examine our culture, choose what we want to keep intact and decide how we will manage change."
Don Goldfus, Retired Chairman, Apogee Enterprises, Inc.

"As we look ahead, we are being guided by a set of values that began with my grandfather. Those values have as much bearing on our future as they did more than 75 years ago."
Terry Meehan, Managing Partner, M.J. Meehan & Company

"I'm convinced that the fabric that can hold a company together is its culture, its values and its beliefs."
Walter Kissling, Retired President and CEO, H.B. Fuller Company

"I personally believe that our historic values - more than any specific product, marketing strategy or competitive price - will make all the difference in our future performance."
R.L. Knowlton, Chairman Emeritus, Hormel Foods Corporation

"If you can capture an organization's history and heart so that people feel proud of what they're doing, it's clear to me that you're going to achieve better performance as a result. In the absence of a clearly defined culture, there aren't any guidelines."
Gary Ferrentino, CFO and COO, M.J. Meehan & Company

"We need to attract the best talent possible. Capitalizing on our history has helped us do that."
Don Goldfus, Retired Chairman, Apogee Enterprises, Inc.

"The spirit of our company is embodied in the people and the buildings that shape our landscape and being. Carol Pine, our talented author, weaved these experiences into an absorbing mosaic that brings to life the company’s progress and projects as they were planned and built. This written history marks the foundation upon which to build and is now a part of the heritage of generations to follow."
M. A. Mortenson, Jr., Chairman and CEO, M. A. Mortenson Company