Recently we have had some real successes in lining up influential people for our Board of Overseers that I want to share with you. Over the past year, new members include:
Bill Zollars, CEO of Yellow/Roadway (Kansas City)
John Hammergren, CEO of McKesson Corp. (San Francisco)
Tom Staggs, CFO of the Walt Disney Company (Los Angeles)
Jeff Noddle, CEO of SuperValu (Minnesota)
Jay Fishman, CEO of St. Paul Travelers
As you can see, these are very important people who can do a lot for our school. The best part is the commitment they are making. All of them have agreed to do this with the knowledge that they will be as active as possible.
Larry Benveniste, dean
Take Note
Announcements
Katy Holmgren is the new Inside Carlson editor, effective August 4. Beth Weixel is leaving to concentrate full time on her studies in the English PhD program at the University. Please forward all future events, notices, and story ideas to Katy by the last Wednesday of each month for inclusion in the next month's newsletter. Inside Carlson is distributed the first Wednesday of each month.
Faculty and staff are invited to help welcome students back at a special first annual all-school event5:00-5:45 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 9 in the atrium. Brief entertainment will kick off the event. All faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to attend.
Over the past several months, the school has been going through a strategic process of identifying areas of academic and business excellence into which we will make targeted investments to further the reputation of our school and to attract more students nationwide. Our faculty have assembled three proposals, and the school is putting together a blue ribbon committee to evaluate them and provide feedback. Proposals have been distributed to all tenured and tenure-track faculty. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of these proposals, contact Dean’s office receptionist Holly Brandberg at 4-300 Carlson School.
West Bank Facilities Management has arranged for window washing on the West Bank campus, including the Carlson School, during July and August. Specific dates for the cleaning are not available. A vendor will wash office windows and main entrance windows, so staff should be prepared to quickly clear window ledges within their offices. If you have questions, please direct them to the appropriate CarlsonSchool building manager.
Twin Cities Public Television (TPT Channel 17, or channel 13 on Minneapolis cable) will air “Inside the Boardroom with PBS CEO Pat Mitchell” Saturday, Aug. 21, 10:00–11:00 p.m.
John Fossum will serve a term as acting department chair and Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies director during the 2004-2005 academic year while Avner Ben-Ner is on sabbatical.
Alok Gupta(at right) will take the helm from Art Hill as the academic director for Carlson Consulting Enterprise in September.
Congratulations
Earlene Bronson, assistant director of the PhD Program in Business, was elected vice chair of the Doctoral Programs Network (DocNet), a consortium of directors and administrators of doctoral programs in business administration that meets annually under the auspices of GMAC and AACSB.
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.
Staff:
Nicki Cook, Part-Time and Executive MBA
Matt Fitzpatrick, Office of the Dean
Aime Hauer, Office of Learning Excellence
Katy Holmgren, Marketing Services
John Merrit, Marketing Services
Students:
Martina Carlson, Operations and Management Sciences
Justin Matasovsky, Strategic Management and Organization
Jennifer Suek, Operations and Management Sciences
Employment Opportunities at theCarlsonSchool
The following are internal career opportunities at the CarlsonSchool . Use the following details to find more information on the positions and how to apply at the University of Minnesota Office of Human Resources Employment website.
Note: The application process is handled through the University’s central HR office, though Carlson School HR staff are available to answer questions.
Date Posted
Req. #
Position Title
Job Code
Department
7/21/04
125526
Program Associate– Event Director
8208
Corporate and Alumni Services
7/22/04
125262
Office Supervisor
7824
Strategic Management and Organization/Information and Decision Sciences Cluster
7/26/04
125673
Office Specialist
7823
Marketing and Logistics Management
7/28/04
125264
Principal Administrative Specialist
1833
Information and Decision Sciences
7/28/04
124847
Info Tech Professional– Business Analyst
8635
Office of Information Technology
University awards local businesswoman highest alumni award
The University of Minnesota will present Carlson School alumna Yvonne Cheung Ho with an Outstanding Achievement Award at a celebration 3 p.m. Friday, August 13, at Eastcliff, 176 N. Mississippi, Minneapolis. The award is the highest honor given to alumni and recognizes exceptional achievement in a professional field or service.
Cheung Ho is president and CEO of the Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA) and an advocate for Minnesota ’s minority business owners and entrepreneurs. She emigrated from her native Hong Kong in 1972 to study business at the University of Minnesota , graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1976.
MEDA is a nonprofit organization offering services to Minnesota businesses owned and operated by minority businesspeople. Its services include help with loans and financing, training, and consulting. Cheung Ho has been credited with keeping MEDA financially stable in recent years despite declining funding from the government and the corporate sector.
Cheung Ho’s work at MEDA is also credited with strengthening Minnesota ’s burgeoning minority communities and increasing their economic opportunity. Under her direction, 29 corporations worked together to reach a goal of spending a minimum 5 percent of all purchasing dollars on minority suppliers. In 1996 she helped launch the Partnering for Success program, which pairs majority corporations with minority suppliers in order to grow sustainable businesses for minority entrepreneurs. By 2002 MEDA’s clients employed almost 5,000 people—half of them minorities—and pulled in $867 million in revenue.
In 2002 former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura appointed Cheung Ho to serve on the Working Group on Minority Business Development. The Business Journal named her the “Most Influential Woman in Business” in 2002. She was also named the U.S. Small Business Association Minority Small Business Advocate that year.
Cheung Ho has also worked for IBM as a systems engineer and at Norwest Bank in project management, cash management, and commercial lending. She also founded and operated two home-based businesses.
The University of Minnesota presents 20 Outstanding Achievement Awards each year. The Twin Cities campus alone has approximately 350,000 alumni.
Faculty News
The AcademyHealth 2004 Annual Research Meeting took place June 6–8, 2004, in San Diego.Stephen Parente(at right) chaired the session “Health Care Information Systems: Imminent Solutions or Distant Hope” and also presented “Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Early Cost and Use Evidence with a Focus on Pharmacetuticals.” Jon Christianson chaired the session “Trends and Innovations in Insurance Design: Implications for Cost, Access and Quality.”
Click here for recent publication citations from Healthcare Management faculty
Doctoral Student Tim Hargrave’s Research Examines Companies’ Response to Social Change
Prior to coming to the CarlsonSchool , I earned both an MBA and a master’s degree in energy and resources from the University of California at Berkeley , and I spent seven years at the Center for Clean Air Policy, a Washington, DC-based environmental policy institute. At the Center I worked almost exclusively on the issue of global climate change. I managed projects to design greenhouse gas emissions trading systems for both the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the European Commission, wrote position papers on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol (the international framework for addressing climate change), and helped facilitate informal discussions among Kyoto Protocol negotiators.
My experience at the Center for Clean Air Policy led me to consider a Ph.D. in management. I became particularly intrigued by the observation that companies with seemingly similar economic interests were taking very different stances on climate change policy. This was perhaps most striking in the oil industry, where I observed that companies including BP and Royal Dutch Shell were playing a constructive role in climate change policy deliberations while ExxonMobil and other companies were ardently resisting new regulations. While economic modeling exercises (including one managed by me) tended to assume that firms that could be expected to suffer significant economic losses from climate change regulation would oppose such regulation, this was not always the case.
This observation has become the basis for my doctoral dissertation. The purpose of my dissertation is to explain oil companies' strategic responses to global climate change, and variations among companies in their responses. I propose that companies' actions on climate change are driven by managers' historically rooted, deeply held beliefs about how best to respond to social pressures and to external stakeholders such as regulators and activists.
Faculty: Please contact John Merritt, the new Communications Manager in Marketing Services, regarding media contacts and coverage. Also, if you have any recent research or story ideas for national media, contact him at 4-8770.
“Putting the market to work” Star Tribune, July 19
Steve Parente and Jon Christianson, Healthcare Management; Tom Murtha, Strategic Management and Organization
“Northwest Airlines tells employees that pay cuts will pay off” Star Tribune, July 9
John Budd, Human Resources and Industrial Relations
“Commercial lending bouncing back” Star Tribune, July 4
John Boyd, Finance
2004 Orientation Events
Faculty and staff are welcome as indicated.
Monday, August 16
Part-Time MBA New Student Orientation The Carlson School welcomes 290 new Part-Time MBA students. These all-day events introduce students to the academic process as well as describe the services and opportunities available to Part-Time MBA students. They conclude with a networking reception for all new students.
Friday, August 20
Carlson Executive MBA (CEMBA) New Student All-DayOrientation ExecutiveTrainingCenter
CEMBA welcomes 64 new students and 46 returning students. Orientation acquaints students with the services and opportunities available through CEMBA. CEMBA faculty are welcome.
CEMBA New and Returning Student Barbeque CEMBA faculty are welcome to join this networking opportunity for new and returning CEMBA students. Also joining the event will be members of the CEMBA Alumni Council. 5:00 p.m.
Pierson and Florence Grieve Courtyard (between CarlsonSchool and Humphrey Institute)
Tuesday, August 24
Part-Time MBA New Student Orientation See August 16 entry for event description.
Sept. 8–12
CEMBA Live-In First andSecondYearResidency RadissonConferenceCenter
The residency for second-year students includes an intensive, two-day Negotiations Module led by Mario Bognanno and an international residency prep session for the final program course held in Stockholm and St. Petersburg during Spring semester.
Friday, September 10
CEMBA Fall Kick-Off Event CEMBA students and faculty are welcome. Special event guest is Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairman and CEO of Carlson Companies, speaking on “Integrative Leadership.” 6:00 p.m. RadissonConferenceCenterPlymouth
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Learning Abroad Fair
Find out what study, work, and internship opportunities are available. Representatives from various programs will be available to answer your questions. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to browse this casual event. 10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
West end of the WashingtonAvenueBridge
Events Calendar
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, August 5
CSBU Staff Day 2004 All Civil Service Bargaining Unit staff are invited to this bring-your-own-lunch event. Fruit and bottled water will be provided, and shuttle buses will be available for tours of Eastcliff. 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.and7:00–8:30 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union , RiverSidePlaza
Friday, August 6
MBA First Friday Boat Cruise on theMississippi This is a social and networking event for current students and recent graduates of Carlson MBA programs. Faculty and staff are welcome. Please join us as we welcome the Carlson School MBA Class of 2006. 5:30–7:30 p.m. HarrietIsland , St. Paul
$10 per person
Registration is required. For more information, contact Lori Kocer at 5-7309 or lkocer@csom.umn.edu.
Friday, August 20
Carlson School 7th Annual Day at the Races A gathering for CarlsonSchool alumni, faculty, staff, and friends. 6:00–9:00 p.m. CanterburyPark , Ubetcha! Bar and Grill, 1100 Canterbury Road, Shakopee, 55379
Sponsored by Carlson School Corporate and Alumni Services and Curt Sampson,’55 BSB
Free admission to the park for you and a guest, free general parking, free bet voucher and free snacks
RSVP required by August 13 at 612-626-9635 or www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/events
August 27–28
MISRC/CRITO Symposium on the Digital Divide
“The Impact of the Digital Divide on Management and Policy: Determinants and Implications of Unequal Access to Information Technology”
2-260 CarlsonSchool
$125
Sponsored by the MISResearchCenter , CarlsonSchool
For more information, click here .
Tuesday, September 7
Fall 2004 classes begin
First Tuesday Luncheon John Fleming, President and CEO of Walmart.com, speaks on “Post-Bubble e-Retail: Delivering on the Promise of the Internet.”
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Note new location: McNamara Alumni Center, East Bank campus, 200 Oak Street, Minneapolis
Sponsored by the Carlson School and US Bank
Pre-registration is $23; $28 at the door
For more information, please contact 612-626-9634 or firsttuesday@csom.umn.edu.
Thursday, September 9
First Annual All-School Event Faculty and staff are invited to help welcome students back at a special all-school event. Brief entertainment will kick off the event. All faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to attend. 5:00-5:45 p.m.
Atrium
Take Note
Saturday, Aug. 21, 10:00–11:00 p.m.
Faculty News
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