Here’s what recent Carlson School of Management graduate Austin Hermann told fellow graduates — and The Huffington Post — about “realizing purpose” in business: When you look at business as a way of serving, and giving, and putting others first, it becomes such a gift to the world. Fundamentally, business is people helping people. Business Read more →
A much larger share of students are graduating from the University of Minnesota in four years than two decades ago. Campus officials told regents today that 59 percent of the university’s students graduate. That’s close to the 60 percent rate that the university set in 2006. The Twin Cities campus ranks 10th out of 17 Read more →
Carlson School of Management Dean Sri Zaheer tells Bloomberg Businessweek an advantage of recruiting military veterans into its programs: “We find that having some percentage of the class as returning from the military influences the classroom culture. They’re more disciplined; they’re used to hard work.” The article looks at Carlson’s veteran recruitment efforts. You can read it Read more →
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 →
Just got this document showing who’s supposed to be on the search committee for the new dean of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management — via Lars Leafblad, executive-search consultant: Carlson School Dean Search Committee Chair Mary Nichols, Dean, College of Continuing Education and Professor, Department of Strategic Management & Organization, Carlson School Read more →
I’ve posted lists of the most- and least expensive Minnesota schools on the feds’ new affordability report, and we’ve also seen how some of Minnesota’s schools are among the cheapest for out-of-state students. In-state students might not like this one: The master’s program at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota has Read more →
http://youtu.be/T8DvIYNKxhg “To do it the way they did it, it’s just not right to be taught that in school. That’s almost plagiarism, and they got the whole school backing up the knowledge and marketing.” — Ron Ely, co-founder of StepNpull, who told the Star Tribune that some Carlson School of Management students created a rival 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 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 →
Alex Friedrich