Carlson School apparel and merchandise is on sale at the Coffman Union University Bookstore, online, and in the atrium for the next few weeks. Visit the University Bookstore or click here to shop online for a wider selection of items such as Tommy Hilfiger polos, shirts, and sweaters.
To show pride in the Carlson School and kick off the holiday shopping season, plan for these special sales days:
Friday, December 3, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m., on the Carlson School second floor balcony
Monday, December 6, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., in the Carlson School atrium
Thursday, December 9, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., in the Carlson School atrium
Marketing Services will continue to support at-cost group and custom sales in support of Carlson School program offices, departments, and centers. Please contact Louise Muldoon at 5-8567.
Yulefest is the time to purchase items made by Carlson School employees. This event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8, in the atrium. Crafters will be selling a wide array of scarves, home-baked cakes and cookies, Christmas/holiday ornaments, fleece clothing, jewelry, art, and more! (It’s not too late to be one of the sellers! Contact Jacquelyn Wingfield at 6-8129 to reserve a table).
Help make families in the Twin Cities warmer this winter by donating new and used clothing on Wednesday, December 1. Drop it off at the Undergraduate office before noon or take part in the Fill the Bus clothing drive between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., when a University of Minnesota shuttle bus will be parked in front of Coffman Union. The goal? Fill the bus! For more information, click here.
The first new Carlson School Enterprise newsletter is now available. The Carlson Consulting Enterprise bi-annual newsletter is available. Click here to view. If you would like copies of this or future newsletters, please contact Catherine Peloquin.
Faculty and staff looking for tips on working with the media may enjoy this streaming video of a media panel held at the Carlson School on Friday, October 29. Click here to view. MPR's education reporter Marisa Helms and Star Tribune consumer reporter John Reinan shared media interviewing tips. For more information, contact Catherine Peloquin.
Help make campus more beautiful by applying for one of the first annual Beautiful U Day Grants. This spring, Beautiful U Day will be held on April 21, 2005. Each spring Beautiful U Day celebrates the beauty of the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus. Over the past seven years, Beautiful U Day has involved over 10,000 volunteers who have joined together to plant more than 80,000 flowering bulbs, removed 800 tons of unwanted materials from campus buildings, painted the Washington Avenue Bridge, explored ways to preserve and enhance the Sarita Wetlands, and countless other beautification efforts. Staff, student groups, and faculty are all encouraged to apply. A total of $35,000 is available for funding. Grant proposals are due Friday, December 3, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. in 315 Morrill Hall. To email a question, click here. For grant guidelines and applications, click here.
Report any signs of mice (droppings, fresh gnawing, and sightings) to the Carlson School building managers. Plunkett's Pest Control is on the West Bank Campus on Tuesdays and will come out to the school to investigate a pest control situation or set traps as needed. If you need immediate assistance, please dial the Facilities Call Center at 4-2900 using campus phone. Mice can survive in very small areas with limited amounts of food and shelter. Most buildings in which food is stored, handled, or used will support house mice if not mouse-proofed. Although good sanitation will seldom eliminate mice, poor sanitation is sure to attract them and will permit them to thrive. Store food in resealable airtight containers. Good sanitation will also reduce food and shelter for existing mice and, in turn, make baits and traps more effective.
Keep Classrooms Clean
Carlson School physical resources department building managers Julie Wickard, Kathi Margo, and Deb Savage have received a number of reports from instructors and students concerning untidy classrooms .
Carlson School classrooms are cleaned every evening by West Bank Facilities Management. The classrooms are in heavy use by both day and evening students during the academic school year. Facilities do not have the resources to clean classrooms between reservations, so instructors and students must follow the classroom policies established by the University Senate and the Carlson School.
If building services continues to receive complaints of classroom policies not being followed by faculty, staff, and students, they will have to take the necessary steps to disallow food and drink from the classrooms. To avoid this:
Standard trash and quad containers located in classrooms should not be used for disposal of pizza and sandwich deliveries. Extra trash bins should be requested at least 48 hours in advance when food and drink are brought into the classroom. Staff should use the on-line custodial service request forms to request extra trash bins. Click here.
Remove serviceware, extra trash bins, and other items before the end of your class or event to allow the next user to have a clean classroom environment. Extra trash containers can be placed in the hallway or brought down to the lower level dock area.
Report classroom problems by calling the contact phone numbers posted in each of the classrooms.
Policies that govern the Carlson School room use have been listed online. Click here for more information.
The University Senate has established classroom expectation guidelines to be followed campus-wide. Both instructors and students have a fundamental obligation to respect the rights of each other and an equally fundamental obligation to respect the instructional setting as a place for civil, courteous behavior. Students may be responsible for helping straighten up a classroom at the end of a class period, if requested to do so by the instructor (see Section III (7) in the Event Scheduling Guidelines, or click here).
Congratulations
Congratulations to the staff day winners! On Wednesday, November 10, the Undergraduate office received a Team Outstanding Service Award for their great work. Therese Austin, Mariann Nelson, and Jeanne Anderson were recognized with Individual Outstanding Service Awards. And thirty-three Carlson School staffers received Carlson School Longevity Awards!
Congratulations to Full-Time MBA students Sandeep Anand, Justin Benshoof, Chris Jones, Maksym Leshchenko, and Tim Reiner for making it to the second round of the Thunderbird Global Innovation Challenge! In the second annual Innovation Challenge, teams from the top 100 universities in 20 countries competed to develop the most innovative business concepts for event sponsors.
Jeff Bieganek, Director of Admissions for the Part-Time and Executive MBA Programs, will serve on the Executive MBA Council Conference Planning Committee for the Barcelona, Spain conference scheduled for October 2005. Jeff will work with an international team that will plan the first conference outside of North America for the Executive MBA Council.
Melissa Behles has been promoted to the position of Associate Development Officer with the Carlson School Development Team. Melissa blends her marketing education and experience with her terrific work ethic and knowledge of development in the strategic creation and implementation of the Carlson School's annual fund raising efforts as they relate to the School's strategic plan, with a strong focus towards growth of participation by alumni, friends, students and their renewed and increased support.
Bob Clarkson will retire on Thursday, December 30. Bob has been employed with the school for more than five years as the school's kiosk attendant, and he has done an outstanding job in providing customer service to our faculty, staff, students, and visitors.An open house for Bob will be from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on December 30 in the atrium. Be sure to stop by for cake and wish Bob a joyous and healthy retirement.
Carlson School, the alumni magazine of the Carlson School, was honored four times at the Minnesota Magazine and Publications Association Awards. The alumni magazine received the gold award for best overall design, the bronze award for best regular column (The Atrium), a silver award for best feature article ("New World Order," Fall 2003), and a silver award for overall excellence.
Welcome
Please welcome Angus Gassner, the principal administrative specialist for the Development team. She joins us after recently completing a nine month adventure of traveling the globe, celebrating earning her MBA at the University of Bath in the UK. Prior to her MBA, she was the Executive Secretary to the Executive Director of Outward Bound Hong Kong, and with the Hong Kong Bar Association. She earned her bachelor of arts from the University of Manitoba. Her office is located within the Dean's office suite in the cube between Michael Teachout and Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Please welcome Shannon Murphy as the new event director for corporate and alumni services. Shannon brings a diverse professional background of more than nine years of event management, sales and support. Her skills include client relations, event planning and promotion, budget management, and television production. Shannon's campus life experience includes earning a speech communications degree from Saint Cloud State with concentrations in marketing, fine arts, and sport sciences. She served as a catering sales manager for the Radisson Metrodome in 1999. She's worked in the nonprofit sector with the American Cancer Society in St. Paul and coordinated receptions, conventions, movie premiers and other events for Pinnacle, LLC in Los Angeles for more than three years. Shannon's responsibilities focus on external constituents (alumni, benefactors, corporate partners) with recurring events like First Tuesday and Inside the Boardroom as well as special events such as University Outstanding Achievement Awards and regional alumni receptions. Shannon will also provide some internal event consultation. She will office in 4-371 and can be reached by phone at 5-8308.
Kevin Havard joined the Undergraduate Program office as an Office Specialist in November. He oversees all aspects of the front office, including fielding student questions and concerns, on-call advising, scheduling appointments, and managing the front desk staff. Kevin has and extensive background in management and customer service, working for the last 10 years in the business world. He previously attended the University of MInnesota, Duluth as an undergraduate student.
New Undergraduate Program
The first ever Entrepreneurship in Action program will be offered to undergraduate seniors in Fall semester 2005 and Spring semester 2006. Open to 30 students in the Entrepreneurial Management major, the program will offer students the opportunity to conceive of, plan, launch and operate a business during the year. Students will gain hands-on experience with all aspects of the business, including marketing and strategy, finance and accounting, operations and supply chain management, human resources, and information technology.
The course will run for two semesters during the students’ senior year at the Carlson School. During the fall semester, the students will identify business opportunities, develop a business plan, and determine the resources needed to launch the business. In the spring semester, the class will implement the business plan, manage the business, and determine the exit strategy for the company.
The course will use a combination of texts, readings, and cases to supplement and enhance the learning experience of running a business. Applications for the Enterprise will be available in Spring 2005 and candidates will be notified of their selection before fall registration begins in April. Email questions to Roy Wetterstrom or Frank Beil .
Women’s Mentor Circles
The Carlson School's Full-Time MBA Diversity Initiative and Graduate Women in Business sponsored the second of two Women's Mentor Circles on Friday, November 19. The event featured a panel discussion of how local business leaders have responded to power in business. The panel was followed by small group "mentor circles" that expounded upon the discussion and discussed networking challenges and successes. In these circles, participants crafted individualized plans of action aimed at personal and professional growth. This event piloted a program officially beginning in spring 2005.
Doctoral Student Priscilla Arling’s Research Examines Flexibility and Success through Distributed Work
My experiences and questions as a manager of distributed workers led me to the doctoral program at the Carlson School. I started my career with a bachelor of science in information systems, adding an MBA as I moved into management. With twenty years of experience in information systems in the auto, chemical, and insurance fields, I looked to the faculty and curriculum at Carlson to help me leverage practical understanding to create new knowledge about the outcomes of and best practices for distributed work.
In today’s complex local and global business environment, it is often not what work is accomplished but how that separates successful firms from their competitors. Leveraging new technology has become a critical factor in achieving and maintaining strategic competitive advantage. In addition, the trend toward a highly mobile and global work force has necessitated a re-thinking of how knowledge work in particular can be best carried out. Thus a key question for business leaders today is “How can I achieve the flexibility needed in my business processes to accommodate the ever evolving requirements for success?”
For many firms, one answer has been the implementation of distributed work processes. Also called virtual work or remote work, such processes enable employees to overcome time and distance barriers that may inhibit the effective accomplishment of tasks. Yet many companies are unsure if distributed work is right for them and wonder about the impact it may have on employees, teams and ultimately firm performance.
Faculty: Please contact John Merritt, Communications Manager in Marketing Services, regarding media events and coverage. Also, if you have any recent research or story ideas for national media, contact him at 4–8770.
Carlson School People and Programs
“Head of the Class” Minnesota Business, November 2004
Larry Benveniste, Dean
“Sears/Kmart merger” KSTP-TV, November 17
David Hopkins, Brands Enterprise
“Sears/Kmart merger” WCCO-TV, November 17
Philip Bromiley, Strategic Management and Organization
“Tax Reform” KARE-TV, November 16
Gary Carter, Business Taxation
“Predicting dollar’s value can be a fool’s game” Pioneer Press, November 14
Maria Carkovic, Finance
“R.J. Reynolds Tobacco manufacturing workers have long road to unionization” Winston-Salem Journal, November 12
John Budd, Human Resources and Industrial Relations
“New Web site spreads info on clinics” Associated Press, November 10; MPR, November 11Health & Medicine Week, November 29; Managed Care Weekly Digest; November 29; Life Science Weekly, November 30; Managed Care Business Week, November 30; Physician Business Week, November 30; Science Letter, November 30; State & Local Health Law Weekly, December 2; Medicine & Law Weekly, December 3; Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, December 4
Jon Christianson, Healthcare Management
“Minnesota’s brain wave” Pioneer Press, November 8
Jean Abraham, Healthcare Management
“Moving forward by backing up” Star Tribune, November 8
Carlson School’s business-plan competition
“Retraites: Desamorcer la bombe a retardement” La Tribune, November 2
John Budd, Human Resources and Industrial Relations
“Good news, bad news; Hospitals’ net profit margin up, operating margin down” Modern Healthcare, November 1
Steve Parente, Healthcare Management
“Dragons and stones” National Post, October 29
Minyan Zhao, Strategic Management and Organization
Faculty Calendar
Wednesday, December 1
Final Fall 2005 & Spring 2006 class schedules are due to Julie Wickard
Materials for faculty being reviewed in their fourth year are due to Becky Boudreau in the Dean's Office
Wednesday, December 8
Sabbatical requests for 2005–2006 due to Dean's office
Friday, December 10
Curriculum Committee 8:30 a.m. –10:00 a.m.
3M Auditorium
Continental breakfast will be provided
If you have any questions, please contact Julie Wickard.
The Faculty Consultative Committee scheduled for December 10 has been postponed. Please look for an announcement from the committee in January regarding a new date. If you have any questions, please contact Becky Boudreau
Friday, December 17
Faculty Appointment & Promotion Committee Absentee ballots are available from Becky Boudreau. Absentee ballots are due by 4:00 p.m. on December 16. If you have any questions, please contact Becky Boudreau.
8:00 a.m.noon
2–260Z
Friday, December 31
Reports from faculty who received McKnight funds during summer 2004 are due to Becky Boudreau. The reports should detail the how the funds were used and the impact the funds had on research.
Calendar of Events
Wednesday, December 1
Fill the Bus Clothing Drive Help make families in the Twin Cities warmer this winter by donating new and used clothing.
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
In front of Coffman Union
For more information, click here. www.fillthebus.org
Thursday, December 2
Minnesota Mutual Foundation Leadership Lecture Series Jim McCarty, CEO of Jim McCarty and Associates, will speak on “Leadership and the Power of One.”
noon–1:00 p.m.
3M Auditorium
Be Dazzled Discount Week at the Weisman Art Museum begins. University students and staff receive a 20% discount on purchases
Friday, December 3
Carlson School apparel and merchandise will be on sale at the Carlson School.
11 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Second floor balcony
First Friday A networking and social event for Carlson MBA alumni and students. This month’s event spotlights the supply chain & operations industry. MPLS. Café
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Salsa lesson at 6:15 p.m.
A $5 event fee will be collected at the door.
For more information, click here.
Monday, December 6
Carlson School apparel and merchandise will soon be on sale at the Carlson School. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
atrium
Tuesday, December 7
First Tuesday Luncheon
Stephen B. Young, Global Executive Director, the Caux Round Table, will speak on "Moral Capitalism: Transvaluation of Value.”
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
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 4–9634 or click here.
Wednesday, December 8
Yulefest Purchase items crafted and sold by your co-workers at the Carlson School.
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
atrium
For more information, contact Jacquelyn Wingfield at 6–8129.
Thursday, December 9
Carlson School apparel and merchandise sale. Items will soon be on sale at the Carlson School.
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
atrium
Carlson Executive MBA Information Session
5:30 pm
2–260
Dial 4–1385 for more information
Carlson Part-Time MBA Information Session
6:30 pm
2-260
Dial 6-7900 for more information
Be Dazzled Discount Week at the Weisman Art Museum ends.
Tuesday, January 4
First Tuesday Luncheon
Linda Hall Whitman, President & CEO of MinuteClinic, will speak on “Steering a Career from the Corporate Track to the Start-up Fast Lane."
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
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 4–9634 or click here.
Friday,January 7
First Friday A networking and social event for Carlson MBA alumni and students. Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Live jazz by Fosse!.
A $5 event fee will be collected at the door.
For more information, click here.
https://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page2070.aspx
Thursday, January 13
Carlson Executive MBA Information Session
5:30 p.m.
2–260
Dial 4–1385 for more information
Carlson Part-Time MBA Information Session 6:30 p.m.
2–260
Dial 6–7900 for more information
Thursday, January 20 Carlson Part-Time MBA Information Session
10:00 a.m.
2–260
Dial 6–7900 for more information
Thursday, January 27 Carlson Part-Time MBA Information Session
6:30 p.m.
2–260
Dial 6–7900 for more information
Tuesday, February 1
First Tuesday Luncheon
Reatha Clark King, PhD, Former President & Board Chair, General Mills Foundation, will speak on “Diversity – The Competitive Advantage for the 21st Century.”
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
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 4–9634 or click here.
Friday, February 4
First Friday networking happy hour The Local
5:30 p.m. –7:30 p.m.
A $5 event fee will be collected at the door.
For more information, click here.
Help make campus more beautiful by applying for one of the first annual Beautiful U Day Grants. This spring, Beautiful U Day will be held on April 21, 2005. Each spring Beautiful U Day celebrates the beauty of the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus. Over the past seven years, Beautiful U Day has involved over 10,000 volunteers who have joined together to plant more than 80,000 flowering bulbs, removed 800 tons of unwanted materials from campus buildings, painted the Washington Avenue Bridge, explored ways to preserve and enhance the Sarita Wetlands, and countless other beautification efforts. Staff, student groups, and faculty are all encouraged to apply. A total of $35,000 is available for funding. Grant proposals are due Friday, December 3, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. in 315 Morrill Hall. To email a question, click 
