If they don't shed the ingrained culture, they're just transferring all the same people, with all the same problems and headaches, into a new procedure.

But Mr. Lack will be inheriting a company with an ingrained culture difficult to penetrate.

"What's happened here is really a pathology of an ingrained culture," Mr. Nixon said.

Even though she was modern, it was hard to ignore centuries of ingrained Chinese culture.

The Sandlers point to a deeply ingrained corporate culture, which holds that there is no shame for a loan officer to say no.

Further, critics say that even if the Police Department is attacking its ingrained culture of corruption, it does not demonstrate a similar resolve regarding police brutality.

In fact, I think one of the greatest strengths of Wal-Mart's ingrained culture is its ability to drop everything and turn on a dime.

And since then, each has struggled to lose an ingrained culture of arrogance that made the company underestimate the might of nimbler upstarts.

Ms. Chaifetz worked to help change what she saw as an ingrained culture of discrimination against poor youth.