Alex FriedrichGeorgia Fisher, assistant dean and director of undergraduate programs at the University of St. Thomas’ Opus College of Business, takes issue with recent articles — such as this one by the New York Times/Chronicle of Higher Education — that suggest that business majors are just coasting through a major they got by default: Perhaps much of this difference Read more →
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The Minnesota Daily reports that the University of Minnesota might need some big bucks to recruit the next Carlson School of Management dean. The previous one, Alison Davis-Blake, served five years and made $477,000 in 2009 — the second-highest amount paid to a dean at the U and the third-highest amount paid to a business-school dean in Read more →
We’re bombarded by rankings — and reports saying how faulty they are — so I’m just putting this out: U.S. News & World Report released its annual business school rankings today, and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management placed 21st. That’s up from 24th last year, Carlson spokesman Steve Rudolph said. Programs that Read more →
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reports on Concordia College’s transformation of the Grant Center into the new Offutt School of Business: When the roughly $13 million project is done, the footprint of the building originally used for food service will remain, but nearly everything else will be different. “The layout bears absolutely no resemblance,” said Greg Read more →
If there’s one corner of the world where the What-is-Education-For debate is most germane, it could be this one. In the world of entrepreneurs, everything needs to pull its own weight. No time for navel-gazing. In two separate articles, entrepreneur Chad Troutwine lists in the Wall Street Journal the reasons for and reasons against getting Read more →
The U of M’s Carlson School of Management has slipped from from #55 last year to #67 this year in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of undergraduate business schools. The slippage caused the snarky local U blog, The Periodic Table, to crack the whip and say: The Morrill Hall Gang had better start taking care of business Read more →