The May 14 issue of City Business recognizes “40 Under 40” young businesspeople who are up and coming in the Twin Cities. This year, the list includes the CarlsonSchool ’s Carleen Kerttula, assistant dean and director of the Full-Time MBA Program. She joins the ranks of Mary Maus Kosir, assistant dean and director of Undergraduate Studies, who received the honor last year. Please join the Office of the Dean in congratulating Carleen.
Summer hours for the CarlsonSchool building will be 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. , Monday through Sunday, starting Monday, May 17, and running through Sunday, Sept. 5. Standard building hours will resume during the 2004-2005 academic school year; the building will be open 6:00 to 12:00 a.m. , Monday through Sunday. The building will be closed Monday, May 31 (Memorial Day); Monday, July 5 (Independence Day); and Monday, Sept. 6 (Labor Day).
Reminder from Facilities Management: No bicycles, pets, rollerblading, skateboarding, or smoking is permitted in the CarlsonSchool building. Also be aware that crime rates are often higher during the summer months. Please take a moment to review helpful crime tips located in the “Safety and Security On Campus” section of the school’s web site.
Faculty and staff are invited to a safety seminar at 1:30 p.m. , Friday, May 14, in CarlsonSchool classroom 1-147. Speakers Matt Quast, University Community Investigator, and Greg Hayes, University Department of Emergency Management, will speak on “Safety and Security On Campus.” The seminar will also include a video about the CarlsonSchool ’s recently developed emergency plan.
Twin Cities Public Television (TPT Channel 17, or channel 13 on Minneapolis cable) will air two taped CarlsonSchool events a number of times in 2004. “How Gender Affects Management Style” airs Saturday, June 26, 8:00–9:00 p.m. “Inside the Boardroom with PBS CEO Pat Mitchell” will air Saturday, May 22, 8:00–9:00 p.m. ; Saturday, June 26, 7:30–8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, Aug. 21, 10:00–11:00 p.m.
Congratulations
The Tomato Can Loving Cup Award, the oldest and most prestigious prize awarded to CarlsonSchool undergraduates, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. The award recognizes distinctive service to the CarlsonSchool . After two years of work experience, the winner can come back for a full scholarship to the Full-time MBA Program. This year’s winner will be announced at Commencement May 16.
Congratulations to Kevin Upton, Marketing and Logistics Management, on being awarded the Carlson Executive MBA (CEMBA) Curtis Cup Outstanding Teacher Award by the CEMBA class of 2004. The Curtis Cup Award was started by the CEMBA Class of 1991 to recognize faculty members who go the extra mile to facilitate learning for CEMBA students. Kevin received high praise and a plaque recognizing his excellence in teaching.
Carlson junior Sarah Solfelt received the Donald R. Zander Outstanding Student Leadership Award May 3 from President Bruininks. The Zander Award has traditionally been awarded to one male and one female undergraduate student honoring their exceptional academic achievement, personal character, and outstanding leadership and service of institution-wide significance. Sarah is captain of the varsity women’s swim team, participates in a number of Carlson School and University-wide student organizations, and is active in governance of residential life on campus—all of this while maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
Benjamin Gervais, a Carlson School junior studying finance with a minor in accounting, has been voted April’s Undergraduate Business Career Center Student of the Month. This award goes to undergraduate students who use the career center or have conducted extraordinary efforts in their job searches. Ben completed a valuable internship as a financial advisor for Smith Barney during the summer of 2003, built his professional network, and passed his Series 7 exam. He also studied abroad in Thailand during fall 2003. He started work last week at Piper Jaffray, where he is an intern investment banking analyst in the consumer group.
Timothy Flannery, May’s Undergraduate Business Career Center Student of the Month, is also a Carlson School junior studying finance with a minor in accounting. Tim will be an investment banking analyst intern this summer at Morgan Stanley in Chicago. He started networking with alumni a year ago, making multiple trips to New York City and Chicago for informational interviews. He received several other offers but decided to take the Morgan Stanley offer because of the job opportunities it will provide.
Business Week Award Winners
Winners of the 2004 Business Week Awards were announced at the Forty-Fourth Annual Business Day Banquet April 1. The theme was “Making the Dream a Reality,” and the evening featured keynote speaker Edwin C. (Skip) Gage, chairman and CEO, Gage Marketing Group. It also featured award presentations to the following winners:
Carlson Student of the Year: Brian Durmaskin
Freshman of the Year: Adam Simonett
Sophomore of the Year: Adrian Dykstra
Junior of the Year: Justin Porter
Senior of the Year: Nate Herrington
Faculty Member of the Year: Paul White
Staff Member of the Year: Laurie Slaght
Mentorship Pair of the Year: Senior Rachel Ball (mentee) and Greg Albrecht (mentor)
Recruiters of the Year: Amy Kroll, Deloitte & Touche; Niki Hoaglund, Marshall Field’s; Jen Higgins, 3M
Special Recognition for Service in Recruiting: Al Linner, Target
Welcome
Please welcome the following new staff members who started work recently at the Carlson School. This list includes full-time and part-time faculty and staff from all job classes who joined the school in the last month.
Garreth McMaster, Office of Information Technology
Laura Thorson, Development
Tori Trobak, Corporate and Alumni Services
Farewell
Jessica Kubat, Allison Parish, and Joe Wills, student employees in Corporate and Alumni Services, are moving on to new things. Jessica will be graduating this May and has accepted her first “real job” as a category analyst for Acosta in Eden Prairie. Allison is graduating and moving on to pursue a career in event management. Her last day will be Friday, May 7. Joe will be with us through next Friday, May 14, before he starts his internship in the employee benefits division at ING. He will graduate next May from the actuarial science program. We wish them all the best.
Important Dates for Faculty
Please contact Cathy Bjerkebek for more information.
May 1-26
Continuing review of faculty performance by the ADC
May 7
Last day of instruction for Spring Semester
May 7
All-School faculty FCC meeting at 2:15 p.m. in Honeywell Auditorium
May 10
All-School faculty CC meeting at 2:00–3:30 p.m. in 3M Auditorium
May 13
Carlson School Research Lecture Series, presented by Paul Johnson, Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Decision Sciences, at 4:00 p.m. in Honeywell Auditorium. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the lower-level atrium. For more details, please contact Becky Boudreau.
May 13
Board of Regents approve promotion and tenure decisions
May 16
Commencement, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Northrup Auditorium. A reception at the Carlson School will follow immediately after the ceremony.
May 26
Begin salary allocation process for faculty
May 31
Preliminary allocation of faculty recruiting lines for 04-05
Faculty News
Sabbaticals
The Carlson School has approved sabbaticals for the academic year 2004-2005 for faculty members John Anderson, Operations and Management Sciences; Joan Meyers-Levy, Marketing and Logistics Management; and Tim Nantell, Finance. Congratulations to these faculty members. Below is more information about John Anderson’s sabbatical plans.
Professors Jim Scoville (Human Resources and Industrial Relations), Deborah John (Marketing and Logistics Management), and Connie Wanberg (Human Resources and Industrial Relations) will return from sabbatical this fall.
Improving Service Through Process, at the University and Beyond
Professor John Anderson has a full plate for his upcoming 2004-2005 sabbatical. A faculty member in Operations and Management Science, Anderson will be furthering his own research interests in sustainable process performance and improvement while simultaneously improving the University’s processes as well.
He plans on using his sabbatical time to identify and launch research projects in organizational learning and knowledge management as they relate to design, management, and improvement of operational processes. Anderson plans to partner with researchers from the University and beyond in doing this work, possibly including scholars in China, England, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Austria. Working with these partners, he’ll be able to identify the most fruitful lines of inquiry into cross-cultural aspects of process and quality management and establish collaboration for promising empirical study.
At the same time, Anderson will be able to apply his research and expertise right here at home. During his sabbatical, he will hold a 25 percent appointment chairing an advisory committee to set up an Office of Service and Process Improvement at the University. Reporting to University President Bob Bruininks, he will lead the committee in establishing the office, recruiting a director and staff, and setting the course for the office as a standing unit which will work on improving service and process performance throughout the University. Anderson believes that creating such an office will help to improve process design and performance throughout the University, improve the timing and deployment of technology, and most importantly, improve the University experience and services for faculty, staff, and students.
Marketing Faculty Represent the Carlson School at Prestigious Event
Five Carlson School Marketing faculty members will attend the June 16–20 American Marketing Association Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium this year, more than any other school except the host school. The consortium is an invitation-only event and one of the most prestigious intellectual events in the marketing discipline. It will be held at Texas A&M University.
Faculty have been invited from several outstanding universities. Mark Bergen, Rajesh Chandy, George John, Akshay Rao (at right), and new Carlson School professor Rohini Ahluwalia will represent the Carlson School. For more information, click here .
The following table shows the number of invitees from schools that were ranked higher than the Carlson School in the recent U. S. News and World Report specialty ranking for marketing.
SCHOOL
NO. OF FACULTY INVITED
1. Northwestern
2
2. University of Pennsylvania
3
3. Harvard
2
4. Columbia
3
5. Duke
3
Stanford
1
7. Michigan
1
8. California (Berkeley)
1
UCLA
1
10. MIT
2
11. NYU
1
12. Chicago
1
Texas (Austin)
3
14. Florida
3
15. Dartmouth
2
16. Wisconsin
1
17. Southern California
1
18. Indiana
1
19. UNC
2
Virginia
0
21. Cornell
0
22. Minnesota
5
New Venture Challenge Winners
Winners of the seventh annual Minnesota New Venture Challenge were named April 21. The competition was open to all University of Minnesota students and alumni, and about 24 teams, including entrants from the College of Liberal Arts, Institute of Technology, and the Carlson School, submitted plans. Judges awarded prizes in a number of categories as well as discretionary prizes, including “Best Use of University of Minnesota Technology” and “Best Start-Up Plan with Positive Social Impact.” Thirteen plans were submitted in the latter category alone. The winners in each category and of special prizes are listed below.
Aside from individual winners, student organizations affiliated with student entrants in the contest were also eligible to receive prize money. This year, two organizations, Alpha Kappa Psi and the Entrepreneurial Club, received $1,000 each when their members’ business plans won.
Best Start-Up Plan with Positive Social Impact($5,000): The Rasmussen Center
Rasmussen Center’s work on diagnosis, early treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease promises large benefits for the public. The center’s proposed network of clinics to continue research and diagnosis will have a social impact on a large scale.
Best Use of University of Minnesota Technology ($5,000): The Rasmussen Center
The Rasmussen Center uses technology developed here at the University to detect and treat cardiovascular disease.
Undergraduate Plans Requiring More than $1 Million
Best Quality Business Plan ($1,000): MASS Technologies, Inc. MASS Technologies provides a sterilization service for newly manufactured medical products.
Undergraduate Plans Requiring Less than $1 Million
First place (Tie, $2,500 each): Kavi Clothes with Conscience, and Lumen Educational Systems
Kavi Clothes with Conscience produces stylish men’s and women’s clothes from environmentally responsible materials and raises awareness about the environmental and health impacts of traditionally manufactured clothing.
Lumen Educational Systems is a partnership to build information systems to link teachers, administrators, parents, and students to facilitate academic success.
Second place: TempRite ($1,000). TempRite technology regulates the temperature and pressure of water used in homes to make daily water use safe and enjoyable.
Graduate and Alumni Plans Requiring More than $1 Million
First Place ($5,000): Intradyne, Inc. Intradyne has developed a new product in backup and archiving appliances to eventually replace taping as the best method for archiving information systems data.
Second Place ($1,000): The Rasmussen Center. Rasmussen is a cardiovascular diagnostic clinic that uses a series of tests to detect vascular and cardiac signs of disease in patients.
Graduate and Alumni Plans Requiring Less than $1 Million
First place ($5,000): Heatwave Mobile Advertising. This company places advertisements on the sides of delivery trucks, creating mobile billboards that reach many people in many different places.
Second place ($1,000): Granite Peak. Granite Peak is developing a stand-alone, portable, mechanical cutter for use in scrapbooking and other leisure hobbies.
Doctoral Student’s Research Combines Linguistics and Business
Communication is the very foundation upon which cross-national and cross-cultural businesses succeed or fail, and yet there has been virtually no research on the role of language on business. Maggie Schomaker(at right), a fourth-year doctoral student in Strategic Management and Organization (SMO), hopes to fill this void. According to Sri Zaheer, Schomaker’s dissertation advisor, her research “on the linguistic issues that arise in post-merger integration in cross-border mergers and acquisitions is likely to become a path-breaking piece of work with its fresh, rigorous, and entirely novel approach, and for what both scholars and managers will learn.”
Schomaker is uniquely positioned to address this issue; she is concurrently enrolled in both the Ph.D. program in business administration at the Carlson School and in the linguistics doctoral program through the College of Liberal Arts. A large part of her curriculum has consisted of the study of language, and she has also completed a major in Science de Langage at l’Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier, France. At the Carlson School, she has worked with several SMO faculty and representatives of five Minnesota firms with experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). These experiences led her to her dissertation research.
Carlson Schools Celebrates Commencement on an International Scale
Carlson School of Management commencement Sunday, May 16, celebrates the 75th anniversary of its prestigious Tomato Can Loving Cup award and the presence of graduates from around the world. John Hammergren, chairman and CEO of McKesson Corporation, will deliver the keynote speech to graduates who include students from the school’s executive programs in China and Vienna . Commencement will be 10 a.m.–12 p.m. at Northrop Auditorium.
This year’s commencement marks the first time students from the Vienna and China MBA programs will attend the Minneapolis commencement together. The students complete their MBA residencies in Minnesota in late spring.
The Tomato Can Loving Cup award, the oldest and most prestigious prize awarded to CarlsonSchool undergraduates, also celebrates its 75th anniversary. The award recognizes distinctive service to the school. After two years of work experience, recipients can come back for a full scholarship to the Carlson School Full-time MBA program. The winner is announced at commencement.
Commencement keynote speaker John Hammergren is chairman and chief executive officer of McKesson Corporation, the nation’s largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, ranking 16th in the Fortune 500. His McKesson career includes posts as president of supply management and as executive vice president for the pharmaceutical, medical-surgical, pharmacy automation and pharmacy outsourcing businesses of the company. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota in 1981 , and his master’s degree from XavierUniversity.
Media Hits
The following CarlsonSchool faculty and staff were recently featured in the media. If you have been contacted by the media, please contact Michael Teachout.
Carlson School People and Programs “Tailored to fit” Twin Cities Business Monthly, April
Bill Scheurer, Executive Development Center
"Business People" Star Tribune, May 3
Randal Zimmermann (at right) , International Programs
“Accounts: Business people Twin Cities” Pioneer Press, May 2
Kristine Kosek, Corporate and Alumni Services
“CSOM to promote more study abroad” Minnesota Daily, April 28
Randal Zimmermann, Mahmood Zaidi, Michael Houston, and Christina Linhoff, International Programs
“Carlson’s Personal Touch” Business Week Online, April 21 Dustin Cornwell, Full-Time MBA program
“CSOM lecture ties religion to business” Minnesota Daily, April 20
Prabhu Guptara, visiting professor; Art Hill, Operations and Management Science; Jim Jarman, Full-Time MBA student
“White-collar crime program returns” Pioneer Press, April 18
“TV’s ‘Apprentice’ is mentor for U students” Star Tribune, April 12
Carleen Kerttula, Full-Time MBA program; Myles Shaver, Strategic Management and Organization; Clare Foley, Graduate Business Career Center; Ben Gervais, undergraduate student; Kelsey Deshler, undergraduate student
“CSOM investment group seeks funds” Minnesota Daily, April 9
Joe Barsky, Carlson Funds Enterprise; Devon Muir and Manos Pytikakis, Full-Time MBA students
“Naming at a price” The Business Journal, April 9
Curt Carlson’s gift to the Carlson School
Carlson School Research
“Executive compensation”
UPN-TV, April 29
Phil Bromiley, Strategic Management and Organization
“Stress high for corporate employees” Wilkes Barre Times Leader, April 16
Richard Arvey, Human Resources and Industrial Relations
“You can take this job and . . .” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 12
Dennis Ahlburg, Senior Associate Dean
“On your mark, get set . . . employees eyeing door” Houston Chronicle, April 11
Dennis Ahlburg, Senior Associate Dean
“Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Insurer aims to change the way Americans look at health” Physician’s Business Week, April 6
Stephen Parente, Jon Christianson, and Roger Feldman, Healthcare Management
Carlson School Member Quotes
The Bus Strike
“Metro Transit workers approve contract; buses to roll Monday” Pioneer Press, April 16
John Budd (at right) , Human Resources and Industrial Relations
FirstFriday JoinCarlsonSchool MBA students and alumni at Solera, one of Food & Wine’s 10 Best New Restaurants. Faculty and staff are welcome.
5:30–7:30 p.m.
Solera, 900 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
Sponsored by Carlson School Corporate and Alumni Services
$5 event fee will be collected at the door
For more information, call Lori Kocer at 612-625-7309.
Saturday, May 8
MBA Grad Picnic Picnic dinner for new (2004) graduates of the CarlsonSchool ’s MBA program 4:30–6:30 p.m. MinnehahaPark , Minneapolis
Sponsored by Corporate and Alumni Services and the Alumni Advisory Council
For more information, please contact Lori Kocer at 612-625-7309 or lkocer@carlsonschool.umn.edu.
Friday, May 14
CarlsonSchoolSafety Seminar Speakers Matt Quast, University Community Investigator, and Greg Hayes, University Department of Emergency Management, will speak on “Safety and Security On Campus.” All faculty and staff are invited to attend. 1:30–2:30 p.m. CarlsonSchool room 1-147
Sunday, May 16
Commencement Ceremony 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Northrop Auditorium, followed by a reception at noon in the CarlsonSchool atrium
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean
For more information, please contact Andre Prahl at 612-625-1998 or aprahl@carlsonschool.umn.edu.
Wednesday, May 19
Evening at the Opera MBA Recent Graduate Program
5:30 p.m.
Ordway Performing Arts Center
Sponsored by Corporate and Alumni Services and the Alumni Advisory Council
For more information, click here or contact Lori Kocer at 612-625-7309 or lkocer@carlsonschool.umn.edu.
Tuesday, June 1
First Tuesday Luncheon Janice Aune, President and CEO of Onvoy, Inc., will discuss “Navigating the Perfect Storm.”
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Radisson Hotel Metrodome, 615 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis
Sponsored by the Carlson School and US Bank
Registration is $23 before May 27, and $28 after that date
For more information, please contact 612-626-9634 or firsttuesday@csom.umn.edu.
June 15–16
The Summit A rare opportunity for senior executives and leading researchers to gather and examine issues related to quality renewal, a century-long quality advantage, and revolutionary leadership in health care.
Sponsored by the JuranCenter for Leadership in Quality
For more information about this invitation-only event, please contact Todd Martell at 612-625-4554.
Professor John Anderson has a full plate for his upcoming 2004-2005 sabbatical. A faculty member in Operations and Management Science, Anderson will be furthering his own research interests in sustainable process performance and improvement while simultaneously improving the University’s processes as well.
Marketing Faculty Represent the Carlson School at Prestigious Event
Media Hits
Carlson School People and Programs
“Metro Transit workers approve contract; buses to roll Monday”
Events Calendar