Carlson School of Management

Infobox_University
name = The Carlson School of Management
established = 1919
type = Public business school
dean = Alison Davis-Blake
undergraduate students =1,868
MBA students =2,569
Students in other masters programs =364
Doctoral candidates =98
tenure and tenure-track faculty = 106
instructional faculty =28
alumni=50,000
city = Minneapolis
state = Minnesota
country = USA
campus = Urban
website = [http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/ www.carlsonschool.umn.edu] The Curtis L. Carlson School of Management (previously known as the University of Minnesota “School of Business”, “School of Business Administration”, “College of Business Administration”, and “School of Management”) is the business school of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The mission of the Carlson School of Management is to discover transformative knowledge about the issues faced by organizations and managers in a dynamic global economy and to create exceptional learning and career opportunities by facilitating an engaged and integrated community of scholars, students, and practitioners. The Carlson School offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees, as well as an executive education program. The Carlson School also offers dual degrees with the colleges and schools of public affairs, law, medicine, and public health.

History

The Carlson School of Management was founded in 1919 in response to requests from business people in the Twin Cities to establish a business school at the University of Minnesota. From the beginning, members of the business community worked in partnership with the school’s faculty and students by providing classroom speakers, internships, employment opportunities, and scholarships. In that first year, 14 faculty members instructed 88 students. Since then, the school has undergone five name changes and has been housed in five locations.Today, the Carlson School has nearly 5,000 students, 50,000 alumni, six degree programs, 106 tenure-track and 28 full-time instructional faculty members. Since its founding, the Carlson School has been an active player in one of the country's most vibrant business communities, and the generosity of many business partners has helped the school grow over the years. Most notable among these benefactors is Curt Carlson, successful entrepreneur, alum, and namesake of the school.Over the years, Carlson School scholars, students, alumni, and business professionals have created an environment that supports and actively promotes research. Together, they’ve built a reputation for creating new knowledge and solving real-world challenges. Today, the Carlson School is recognized as a center for high-quality and breakthrough business research.

Institutional milestones

*1919 – Founded as the University of Minnesota School of Business
*1920 – Became a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
*1929 – First “Tomato Can Loving Cup Award” was given to recognize an outstanding graduating senior who performed the most distinctive service to the Carlson School. The award, which is still given today, now comes with a scholarship to the Carlson School’s MBA program after the recipient has gained two years of work experience.
*1937 – First MBA degree conferred
*1948 – PhD business program founded
*1960 – Part-time MBA program founded
*1963 – Received accreditation from AACSB and became one of the first 20 business schools in the nation to receive this distinction.
*1981 – Executive MBA program founded
*1986 – Curtis L. Carlson, Minnesota entrepreneur and founder of the Carlson Companies, gave the University of Minnesota a $25 million gift, which at the time was the largest single gift ever given to a public university. In his honor, the prestigious School of Management was renamed the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management.
*1988 – First study abroad program was launched in Lyon, France. Now all Carlson School undergraduates are required to have an international experience.
*1993 – Curtis Carlson gives another personal gift of $10 million to the Carlson School to drive the building of a freestanding business school.
*1998 – The Curtis L. Carlson School of Management building is dedicated.
*2004 – Herbert M. Hanson, Jr., and his wife Barbara, pledged $10 million toward the construction of a new undergraduate facility.
*2006 –Dean Alison Davis-Blake is named the first female dean of the Carlson School.
*2008 – The Carlson School’s new undergraduate facility, Herbert M. Hanson, Jr., Hall, opens and welcomes a freshman undergraduate class of nearly 500 students.

Facilities

The Carlson School of Management’s two facilities, the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management and Herbert M. Hanson, Jr. Hall are positioned in a prime location on the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities’ West Bank, west of the Mississippi River.

Curtis L. Carlson School of Management

The Carlson School is housed in a 243,000-square-foot, five-story building that was dedicated in 1998. The building encompasses 33 classrooms, 35 meeting rooms, a 180-seat lecture hall, and a 250-seat auditorium. The facility is equipped with wireless internet access, experiential learning laboratories, teleconferencing and video interview capabilities. The facility is currently undergoing renovations.

Herbert M. Hanson, Jr. Hall

Opening on September 25, 2008, Hanson Hall is connected to the Carlson School by the Robert Sparboe skyway. As part of a $40 million expansion project, Herbert M. Hanson, Jr. Hall will nearly double the size of the business school, and provide a state-of-the-art home for the Carlson School Undergraduate program. Hanson Hall covers 124,000 square feet, is four-stories tall, and is outfitted with nine classrooms with wireless Internet access and state-of-the-art presentation technology. The facility also features 22 interview rooms, 10 breakout rooms, a collaborative learning lab, a recruiter lounge, a meeting room for information sessions and presentations by the corporate community, offices for undergraduate advising, undergraduate career placement, and offices for the Department of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts. The building is named after the generous benefactors, Herb ’49 B.A. and Bar Hanson, who kicked off the building campaign with a $10 million pledge in 2004. In spring 2006, the Minnesota State Legislature granted $26.6 million in funding to the Carlson School as part of the University of Minnesota’s Capital Campaign request.

Centers and institutes

Carlson School scholars, students, alumni, and business professionals have created an environment that supports and actively promotes research. Together, they've built a reputation for creating new knowledge and solving real-world challenges. The Carlson School recognized around the world as a center for high-quality, groundbreaking business research, ranked 6th in the nation for research productivity in management in 2007 by the Academic Analytics and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, reported in the January 12, 2007 edition of the ‘’Chronicle of Higher Education.’’ [http://chronicle.com]

Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies (formerly the Industrial Relations Center) [http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page5888.aspx]

The Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies (formerly the Industrial Relations Center) emerged in an era of tumultuous political and economic changes that began with the Great Depression and ended with the Allied victory in World War II. The post-war economy, with increased inflation and employment shifts, focused attention on labor-management conflict and employment issues. It was against this backdrop that the IRC was founded in 1945 to study influences on employment behavior, and to educate labor and management on collective bargaining agreements. Its mission continues today to serve the HR/IR profession and the ever-changing workplace by focusing on the relationship between employers and employees.

Center for Integrative Leadership [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page7412.aspx]

The Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota aims to develop a better understanding of how collective action across sectors (business, government, nonprofits, media, and academia) and geographic boundaries can solve some of the world’s most pressing and complex societal problems. It is a cooperative undertaking of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Carlson School of Management.

Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/page6242.aspx]

In addition to fostering relationships between students, faculty, and the business community, the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship coordinates entrepreneurial research, teaching, and outreach services. Research focuses on topics such as business formation, entrepreneurship and innovation, venture capital, technology-based start-ups, international entrepreneurship, and the creation of value in ventures.

Human Resources Research Institute [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page5945.aspx]

The Human Resources Research Institute is a faculty/executive partnership composed of faculty from the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies who are recognized leaders in human resources and labor relations research, and high level executives working in the areas of human resources and/or labor relations. Membership in HRRI is available to all corporate members of the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies Advisory Council, as well as members of the Human Resources Executive Council and major recruiters of Carlson School students.

Institute for Research in Marketing [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page6247.aspx]

The Institute for Research in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management leverages the expertise of the Carlson School’s world class marketing faculty and an advisory board of practitioners from leading corporations to foster rigorous and relevant research that improves the science and practice of marketing.Through outreach initiatives that include regular conferences and a web portal, the Institute provides a forum for dialogue among marketing scholars, industry practitioners, policymakers and students.

Joseph M. Juran Center [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page5309.aspx]

During the past century, Joseph M. Juran put forth a vision for a world made better through a commitment to quality. His message has urged leaders to improve quality by learning from both achievements and shortcomings, and by expanding the field through curiosity. From Dr. Juran’s vision for a "Century of Quality" emerged the Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality at the University of Minnesota. The Juran Center is a repository for past developments in the field of leadership in quality, as well as a generator of new research, new ideas, and new scholars. The Carlson School of Management, where the Joseph M. Juran Center is housed, understands the importance of research and teaching in quality, and is committed to being a place where world leaders in quality come to think and contribute. The center’s unique position in an academic setting has helped develop its reputation as a disciplined, rigorous champion of development in the quality field. The center serves as a resource to leaders, scholars, and students of quality. Through its fellowship program for graduate students, its biennial summit for corporate and academic leaders, its educational offerings, and its Body of Knowledge repository of research and discovery, the Joseph M. Juran Center is stewarding the evolution of Dr. Juran’s vision for a "Century of Quality".

Management Information Systems Research Center [http://www.misrc.umn.edu/]

The Management Information Systems Research Center is a non-profit organization in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. The center was founded in 1968 by pioneers in the MIS field as part of the MIS curriculum development at the Carlson School. The center is engaged in the dissemination of leading edge thinking about the MIS field, the development of new curriculum, and the facilitation of applied research. The center disseminates research findings through its seminar series and a working paper series. To be successful, the educational and research programs in MIS require solid support from IS professionals working in industry. The center provides the needed link between the MIS faculty and the business community. Thus, a primary goal of the MIS Research Center is to promote and utilize a valued interaction between MIS professionals and academics.

Medical Industry Leadership Institute [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page6241.aspx]

As a dynamic addition to Minnesota's thriving health care and medical device economy, the Medical Industry Leadership Institute puts executives, physicians, students, and academic leaders in touch with the latest trends in the medical industry. In addition to building on the strengths of the Carlson School's world-class faculty, the institute draws on the University of Minnesota's scientific, technical, policy, legal, and ethics expertise.

Strategic Management Research Center [http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page7258.aspx]

Created in 1984, the Strategic Management Research Center works closely with the business community to provide a supportive environment and framework for the study, generation, and dissemination of knowledge about key strategic management issues to managers, consultants, students, and researchers. With the ongoing support of corporations and government agencies, the center participates in a variety of research endeavors.

International opportunities [http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/page6468.aspx]

The Carlson School is known for excellent global partnerships. Incoming freshmen are required to complete an international experience before graduation. Aside from programs offered by the University of Minnesota Learning Abroad Center, undergraduate students have over 26 business programs to choose from in locations around Latin America, South America, Asia, and Europe. There are 29 programs available to graduate students, providing opportunities to study ethics in Scandinavia, green business in Costa Rica, or collaborate with corporations like Polaroid or International Dairy Queen in China, to name a few.

List of degrees

*Bachelor of Science in Business (BSB)
*Master of Business Administration (MBA)
**Full-Time MBA
**Part-Time MBA
**Executive MBA
**Warsaw Executive MBA
**China Executive MBA
**Vienna Executive MBA
**Joint Law Degree and Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA)
**Joint Medical Degree and Master of Business Administration (MD/MBA)
**Joint Masters in Health Administration and Master of Business Administration (MHA/MBA)
**Joint Masters in Public Policy and Master of Business Administration (MPP/MBA)
*Master of Arts in Human Resources and Industrial Relations (MA-HRIR)
*Master of Business Taxation (MBT)
*Master of Accountancy (MAcc)
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
**Doctorate in Business Administration (PhD-Business)
**Doctorate in Human Resources and Industrial Relations (PhD-HRIR)
**Doctorate in Information and Decision Sciences (PhD-ISD)

Undergraduate majors

*Accounting
*Entrepreneurial Management
*Finance
*Finance and Risk Management Insurance
*Human Resources and Industrial Relations
*International Business
*Management Information Systems
*Marketing
* Supply Chain and Operations Management
*Public/Nonprofit Management
*Undergraduate Minor in Management

tudent life [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page4808.aspx]

Students connect through clubs and organizations, social events, networking opportunities, and more. As a small college within a large, internationally renowned Big Ten university, the Carlson School offers the best of both worlds. With more than 500 organizations at the University of Minnesota -- dozens of which are affiliated with the Carlson School -- students can get involved and connect with others who share their interests.

Notable alumni

*Curtis L. Carlson (’37 BA) – Chairman, Carlson Companies, Inc., namesake of the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management
*Herbert M. Hanson, Jr. (’40 BA) – Chairman, Hanson Investment Management Company
*Philip L. Ray (’12 BA) – Chairman, First National Bank of St. Paul
*Harold E. Wood (’18 BSB) – Chairman, The National Association of Securities Dealers
*S. Clark Beise (’23 BSB) – Chairman of Executive Committee, Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association
*Sidney A. Swensrud (’23 BSB) – Chairman, Gulf Oil Corporatoin
*Bryan E. Smith (’25 BSB) – Chairman, Liberty Mutual Insurance
*W. Wallace McCallum (’30 BSB) – Chairman, The John Morrell & Company
*C. Elmer Anderson (’31 BBA, ’83 PhD) – Minnesota Governor, Minnesota State Senator; Chair & CEO, HB Fuller Co.
*Harold L. Holden, Sr. (’31 BSB) – Founder & Chairman, Holden Graphic Services Company
*Carl L. Nelson (’31 BSB, ’44 PhD) – Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
*Carlyle E. Anderson (’32 BBA) – Chairman & President & CEO, Wyckoff-Anderson
*Philip B. Harris, Sr. (’33 BSB) – President & CEO, Norwest Corporation
*George Pennock (’34 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, The Tennant Company
*Ralph J. Voss (’34 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, Western Bancorp, First Interstate Bank Corporation
*Orem O. Robbins (’36 BBA) – Founder & Chairman, Security Life Insurance Company; Chairman, American Security Financial Enterprises
*Alan K. Ruvelson (’36 BBA) – Founder of America’s first venture capital firm; President, First Midwest Capital Corporation
*Myles Mace (’36 JD) – Emeritus professor, Harvard University; Chairman, Litton Corporation; Chairman, Squibb Corporation
*Robert M. Trueblood (’37 BSB) – Chairman, Deloitte & Touche
*James D. Hodgson (’38 BA) – Senior VP, Lockheed Martin; Chairman, Pathfinder Mines Corp; U.S. Ambassador to Japan
*James Robinson (’38 BSB) – President, Lonsdale Enterprises; Chairman & CEO, Indian Head Inc.
*Vera J. Likins (’39 BSB, ’53 MA, ’68 PhD) – Executive Director, Minnesota Governors Council
*William H. Burgess (’39 BSB) – Founder & CEO, CMS Digital Inc; Chairman, International Controls Corporation
*John Curry (’42 BBA) – Founder, Michael Curry Companies
*Ken Block (’42 BSB) – Chairman, A.T. Kearney Inc.
*Albert Brounstein (’42 BSB) – Founder, Diamond Creek Vineyards
*Merle Hilliard (’42 BSB) – Chairman, Sonnet Tool Company; Founder, Entrepreneurship Program, University of Southern California
*Al Nathe (’42 BSB) – Senior VP, Levi Strauss and Company
*Philip Smaby (’42 BSB) – Chairman, Bermal-Smaby Real Estate Company; Chairman, ASV Corporatoin
*Edward W. Asplin (’43 BBA) – Chairman, Bemis Corporation
*John Cooney (’43 BSB) – President, Eyetech Corporation
*Richard Cyert (’43 BSB) – President, Carnegie Mellon University
*William S. Cook (’48 BBA) – Chairman & CEO, Union Pacific
*Myron Christy (’48/ BBA) President, Western Pacific Railroad Company
*Gedney Tuttle (’48 BBA) – Chairman, M.A. Gedney Co.
*Winston R. Wallin (’48 BBA) – Chairman Emeritus, Medtronic
*Robert Pond (’48 BSB) – President & CEO, Advance Machine Co.
*Robert W. Fleming (’49 BSB) – COO, Mayo Clinic
*Donald A. Freeberg (’49 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, Sierra Land; Chairman, Summit Health Limited
*David Sanders (’49 BA) – Founder, Loop Parking
*Kenneth Puffer (’49 BBA) – Chairman, Williams Steel
*Howard Alton (’50 BSB) – Chairman, Pan O Gold Baking Co.
*Donald Anderson (’50 BSB) – Chairman Emeritus, Bank of Santa Barbara
*David R. Fesler (’50 BBA) – Chairman, Liberty State Bank
*William T. Beebe (’50 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, Delta Airlines
*Vernon H. Heath (’50 BSB) – Founder, Chairman & CEO, Rosemount
*James Larson (’51 BBA, ’54 LAW) – President, Energy Fuels Corporation
*Carl Platou (’51 MHA) – President & CEO, Fairview Hospital System
*Mark Jones II (’52 BA) – President, Highland Management Group
*Dale R. Olseth (’52 BBA) – President, Tonka Corporation; President & CEO, Medtronic; Founder, Chairman & CEO, SurModics
*Gerald Anderson (’52 BSB) – President & CEO, Commonwealth Energy System
*Gerald M. Mitchell (’BSB) – Vice Chairman, Cargill
*Sherman Winthrop (’52 BSB) – Partner, Winthrop Weinstine Et Al
*Robert T. Sprouse (’52 MBA) – Co-Founder, Financial Accounting Standards Board
*Duane R. Kullberg (’54 BBA) – Managing Partner & CEO, Arthur Andersen
*Donald Sveen (’54 BSB) – President, John Nuveen Company
*William H. Dodley (’55 BSB) – Chairman, Simms Capital
*Al Hide (’55 BSB) – Chairman, Satellite Industries
*Curtis A. Sampson (’55 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, Hector Communication Corporation; Chairman, Canterbury Park Holding Corporation
*Bruce Thomson (’55 BSB) – Chairman, Co-founder, Archivers, Photo Memory Store; Co-founder, PROEX; Founder, Pemton
*Frank Trestman (’55 BSB) – President & CEO, NAPCO; President and CEO, Mass Merchandisers
*LeRoy C. Kopp (’56 BSB – Founder & President, Kopp Investment Advisors
*Dan Oren (’56 MBA) – President & CEO, Dart Transit Company
*Andrew P. Czajkowski (’57 BSB) – President & CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
*Norbert R. Berg (’57 MA) – Chairman, Control Data Corporation
*Dr. Robert K. Jaedicke (’57 PhD) – Dean & Professor Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business
*Jack Ocenasek (’58 BS) – Chairman, Williams Steel
*Fred R. Friswold (’58 BSB) – Chairman, Williams Steel
*Donald Wright (’58 MBA) – Vice Chairman, President, and CEO, Los Angeles Times
*Sheldon Wert (’59 BSB) – Chairman, the Shelard Group Inc.
*Marcus Alexis (’59 PhD) – Dean, University of Chicago College of Business Administration
*Malcolm S. McDonald (’60 BBA) – Chairman & CEO, Signet Banking Corporation
*Paul Ravich (’61 BSB, ’64 JD) – Partner, Ravich Meyer & Kirkman PA
*James Rosse, M.D. (’61 BSB, ’63 MA, ’66 PhD) – President & CEO, Freedom Communications Inc.
*Gordon Sprenger (’61 MHA) – CEO, Allina Health Systems; CEO, Lifespan; CEO, Abbott-Northwestern
*Bruce K. Anderson (’62 BSB) – Co-Founder & Senior Manager, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; Chairman & CEO, Amdocs
*George Shortley (’62 BSB) – Chairman, Pacific Southwest Airways
*Duane Burnham (’63 BSB, ’72 MBA) – Chairman, CEO, & President, Abbott Laboratories
*Richard Lidstad (’63 BSB) – Senior Vice President, 3M Inc.
*Louis Nanne (’63 BSB) – General Manager, Minnesota North Stars, National Hockey League; Executive Vice President, Voyageur Asset Management
*Bruce Richard (’63 BSB) – President & COO, Northern States Power Company; Partner, Spell Capital Partners
*Lyle Berman (’64 BSB) – Chairman, CEO, Lakes Gaming Inc.
*James R. Campbell (’64 BSB) – Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota
*Tom Haley (’64 BSB) – Chairman, Innovex Inc.
*Robert A. Kierlin (’64 MBA) – Founder & Chairman, Fastenal Company
*David R. Hubers (’65 BSB, ’70 MBA) – Chairman & CEO, American Express Financial Advisors
*L. James Schoenwetter (’65 MBA) – SVP & Controller, 3M, Inc.
*Pamela J. Nichols (’67 BBA) – Vice President, ADC Telecommunications
*Mark Sheffert (’67 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, Manchester Companies
*Robert L. Duffy (’68 BSB) – Vice President, A.T. Kearney
*Robert Knoll (’68 BSB) – Director, Deloitte & Touche
*John Lindahl (’68 BSB) – Partner, Norwest Equity Partners
*Duane L. Ottenstroer (’68 BSB) – Founder, Unit Company; President, Guardian Fueling Technologies; President, Eventide Investments
*Michael Mee (’68 MBA) – Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Inc.
*Gary Holmes (’69 BA) – Founder, Chairman, CSM Corporation; Namesake, Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management
*Duane Lambrecht (’69 BSB) – President, Shelter Products, Inc.
*Larry Tanning (’69 BSB) – CEO & President, Tanning Technology Group
*Thomas Auth (’69 MBA) – Chairman, Vomela Specialty Co.; Chairman, Interlogix, Inc.
*Robert E. Buuck (’70 BSB, ’72 MBA) – Co-Founder & Chairman, American Medical Systems
*Michael Fiterman (’70 BSB) – President, Liberty Diversified Industries
*Howard Liszt (’70 MBA) – Former CEO, Campbell Mithun
*Patrick Hopf (’71 BSB) – Chairman, Better Life Media; Chairman, Select Comfort
*Gordon Alexander, Jr. (’72 BSB, ’76 MD) – President & CEO, Fairview University Health System
*John Goodman (’72 BSB) – Chairman, The Goodman Group
*David House (’72 BSB) – Group President, American Express Company
*Gene Merriam (’72 BSB) – Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
*John Harris (’74 BSB) – Professional Golf Association
*Bruce Engelsma (’75 BA) – Chairman, Kraus-Anderson
*Kenneth Charles Glaser (’75 BSB) – Founder, K. Charles Development Co.
*Barbara Mowry (’75 MBA) – CEO, One Realm President; Co-Founder, Requisite Technology
*Yvonne Cheung Ho (’76 BSB) – CEO, Metropolitan Economic Development Association
*Timothy Doherty (’76 BSB) – Founder & CEO, Doherty Employment Group
*Bill Sweasy (’76 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, Red Wing Shoe Company
*Lee Bachman (’76 MBA) – Chief Financial Officer, Bachman’s
*Steven Curry (’76 MBA) – CEO & President, Knutson Construction Services, Inc.
*William Van Dyke (’76 MBA) – Chairman, CEO, and President, Donaldson Company
*Jon Campbell (’76 MBA) – President, Great Lakes Region, Well Fargo Bank
*Tony Dungy (’78 BSB) – Head Coach, Indianapolis Colts, National Football League
*Bryson Hollimon (’78 BSB) – Partner, Technology Venture Partners, LLC
*Robert Carter (’78 MBA) – Founder & President, Summit Mortgage Company
*James Hays (’78 BSB, ’80 MBA) – CEO & President, Hays Companies
*William Spell (’79 BSB, ’82 MBA) – President, Spell Capital Partners
*Nazie Eftekhari (’80 MHA) – President & CEO, HealthEZ
*John Hammergren (’81 BSB) – Chairman & CEO, McKesson Corporation
*Leland Annett (’82 BSB) – CEO, Medical Concepts Development
*Tom Lehman (’82 BSB) – Professional Golfer, Professional Golf Association
*Ross Levin (’82 BSB) – Founder and Partner, Accredited Investors Inc.
*Tim McLevish (’82 BSB) – Chief Financial Officer, Ingersoll-Rand CO.
*Tom Staggs (’82 BSB) – Senior Executive Vice President & CFO, The Walt Disney Company
*Charles Mooty (’83 BSB, ’84 MBA) – CEO & President, International Dairy Queen
*Flip Saunders (’83 BSB) – Head Coach, Detroit Pistons, National Basketball Association; Former Head Coach, Minnesota Timberwolves, National Basketball Association
*Mark Cree (’84 BSB) – Founder, Nuspeed Internet Systems
*Mike Illbruck (’85 BSB, ’87 MBA) – Chairman & CEO, Illbruck GmbH
*Roy Wetterstrom (’86 BSB) – Chairman, Plural Inc.
*Jeffrey Weltzin (’90 BSB) – CEO & President, Juxtamark, Inc.
*James Steiner (’91 MBA) – Managing Principal, Lowry Hill Investments
*Curtis Carlson Nelson (’94 MBA) – President & CEO, Carlson Hospitality Worldwide
*Robert D. Smith (’95 BSB, ’96 MBA) – Coach, Ultraskills Hockey School
*Dan Mallin (’95 MBA) – President, Digital@jwt, J. Walter Thompson
*Dean Phillips (’00 MBA) – President & CEO, Phillips Distilling Co.
*Lindsey Berg ('01 BSB) - Member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team

Current and former professors and speakers

*Linda Alvarado – President and CEO, Alvarado Construction; Inside the Boardroom guest, 2008
*Brad Anderson – Vice Chairman and CEO, Best Buy Co., Executive MBA event speaker
*Doug Baker – Chairman/President/CEO, Ecolab, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, February 5, 2008
*Shari Ballard – Executive VP, Divisional at Best Buy Company, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, April 3, 2007
*Lyle Berman – CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director, Lakes Entertainment, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, December 4, 2007
*Robert Bruininks – 15th President of the University of Minnesota; First Tuesday speaker, April 4, 2005
*Susan Engel – Chairman and CEO, Lenox Group; Executive MBA event speaker
*George Buckley – Chairman of the Board, president, and CEO, 3M; CEO Forum on Innovation panelist, July 28, 2008
*Arne Carlson – 37th Governor of Minnesota, former Chairman, RiverSource Funds; First Tuesday speaker, July 10, 2007
*Lynn Casey – Chain and CEO, Padilla Speer Beardsley Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, June 5, 2007
*Reatha Clark King – Former Executive Director of the General Mills Foundation, Former President, Metropolitan State University, Board Member, ExxonMobil; Inside the Boardroom guest, 2007
*Alison Davis-Blake – 11th Dean of the Carlson School of Management; First Tuesday speaker, March 6, 2007
*M. Nazie Eftekhari, CEO, HealthEZ; Executive MBA event speaker
*Mark Eustis – President and CEO, Fairview Health Services; First Tuesday speaker, July 1, 2008
*Steve Forbes – President and CEO, Forbes, Inc.; Editor-in-chief, ”Forbes”; Commencement speaker, May 2007
*Dan Frawley – CEO, Iconoculture; classroom speaker, Carlson Ventures Enterprise
*Ann Fudge – Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands; Inside the Boardroom guest, 2008
*Jeff Greenfield – Television Journalist and Author; Commencement speaker, May 2008
*Carlos Gutierrez – 35th United States Secretary of Commerce, CEO Forum on Innovation moderator, July 28, 2008
*Frank Guzzetta – Former CEO, Macy’s North; First Tuesday speaker, September 4, 2007
*William Hawkings – President and CEO, Medtronic; CEO Forum on Innovation panelist, July 28, 2008
*Michael Hoffman – CEO/Chairman of the Board/President/Director, The Toro Company; First Tuesday speaker, May 1, 2007
*Eric Jolly, Ph.D. – President and CEO of the Science Museum of Minnesota; First Tuesday speaker, April 1, 2008
*Reid Johnson – CEO, Internet Broadcasting Systems; classroom speaker, Carlson Ventures Enterprise
*James Lawrence – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, General Mills; Executive MBA event speaker
*Steve Leuthold – Founder and CIO, The Leuthold Group, LLC; First Tuesday speaker, November 6, 2007
*Ross Levin – Founding Principal, Accredited Investors, Inc., Author, "The Wealth Management Index"; First Tuesday speaker, January 8, 2008
*Scott Litman – Co-founder Minnesota Cup, Managing Director SDWA Ventures LLC, Co-Founder and former CEO of Imaginet, LLC; First Tuesday speaker, June 2005
*Dan Mallin – Co-founder Minnesota Cup, Managing Director SDWA Ventures LLC, Co-Founder and former President of Imaginet, LLC; First Tuesday speaker, June 2005
*Catherine Mathis – Vice President, Corporate Communications, New York Times Company; First Tuesday speaker, November 4, 2008
*Jim McReynolds – President, Caterpillar Global Paving; First Tuesday speaker, March 4, 2008
*Walter F. Mondale – 42nd Vice President of the United States, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Executive MBA event speaker
*Monica Nassif – CEO and Founder, the Caldrea Company; First Tuesday speaker, June 3, 2008
*Marilyn Carlson Nelson – Chairman of the Board, Carlson; CEO Forum on Innovation panelist, July 28, 2008; Inside the Boardroom
*Scott Olson – Founder, Rollerblade & Rowbike; classroom speaker, Carlson Ventures Enterprise
*David Oreck – American salesman, entrepreneur, founder of Oreck Corporation; First Tuesday speaker, August 2005
*Tim Pawlenty – 39th Governor of Minnesota; First Tuesday speaker, May 2005; CEO Forum on Innovation panelist, July 28, 2008
*Tom Petters – Chairman and CEO, Petters Group Worldwide; First Tuesday speaker, August 5, 2008
*Chris Policinski – President and CEO, Land O’Lakes, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, August 7, 2007
*Lois Quam – Director of alternative investments, Piper Jaffray; First Tuesday speaker, May 6, 2008
*Dileep Rao – President, Interfinance; Weekly Columnist, “Forbes.com.”
*Joel Ronning – CEO, Digital River; First Tuesday speaker, October 7, 2008
*Brent Shockley– President, CEO, Co-founder, Spanlink Communications; First Tuesday speaker, February 6, 2007
*Phil Soran – Founder and CEO, Xiotech & Compellent, classroom speaker, Carlson Ventures Enterprise
*Doug Steenland – President and CEO, Northwest Airlines, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, July 2005
*Robert Stephens – Founder, Geek Squad; classroom speaker, Carlson Ventures Enterprise
*John Taft – President and CEO, RBC Dain Rauscher; First Tuesday speaker, December 2, 2008
*Tom Tiller – CEO/Director, Polaris Industries, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, March 7, 2006
*John Wiehoff – CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director/President, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.; First Tuesday speaker, January 9, 2007
*Zygi Wilf – Owner, Minnesota Vikings; First Tuesday speaker, October 2, 2007

Accreditation

The Carlson School has been accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB International since 1963, and a member since 1920.Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Carlson School, was appointed to a three year term on the AACSB International Board in July 2008. [https://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page3295.aspx?showcontent=121177&display=2&templateID=2]

ee also

*List of United States business school rankings
*List of business schools in the United States
*List of University of Minnesota people

External links

AACSB [http://aacsb.edu/] Carlson School of Management [http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/] University of Minnesota Student Unions and Activities [http://www.sua.umn.edu/] University of Minnesota [http://www.umn.edu/]