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Campus

The Carlson School of Management's two facilities, the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management and Herbert M. Hanson Jr. Hall, are on the University of Minnesota's West Bank, west of the Mississippi River.

Curtis L. Carlson School of Management

The Carlson School is housed in a , five-story building that was dedicated in 1998. The building has 33 classrooms, 35 meeting rooms, a 180-seat lecture hall, and a 250-seat auditorium. It is equipped with wireless internet access, experiential learning laboratories, and teleconferencing and video interview capabilities. It is also home to a dining center in the basement level. The facility is currently undergoing renovations.

Herbert M. Hanson Jr. Hall

Opened on September 25, 2008, Hanson Hall is connected to the Carlson School by the Robert Sparboe skyway. As part of a $40 million expansion project, Herbert M. Hanson Jr. Hall nearly doubled the size of the business school, and provided a state-of-the-art home for the Carlson School undergraduate program. Hanson Hall covers , is four stories tall, and has nine classrooms with wireless Internet access and state-of-the-art presentation technology. It also features 22 interview rooms, 10 breakout rooms, a collaborative learning lab, a recruiter lounge, a meeting room for information sessions and presentations by the corporate community, offices for undergraduate advising, undergraduate career placement, offices for the Department of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts, and a Caribou Coffee. The building is named after the benefactors, Herb and Bar Hanson, who kicked off the building campaign with a $10 million pledge in 2004. In 2006, the Minnesota State Legislature granted $26.6 million in funding to the Carlson School as part of the University of Minnesota's Capital Campaign request.

Academics

The school offers a bachelor's, MBA, and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education programs hosted domestically and abroad (Warsaw, China, Vienna). Dual-degree programs include a JD/MBA, MD/MBA, MHA/MBA, and a MPP/MBA. Other programs include a Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (MHRIR), a Master of Business Taxation (MBT), a Master of Accountancy (MAcc), a Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA), an online Master of Applied Business Analytics (MABA), a Master of Marketing (MKTG), a Master of Science in Finance (MSF), and a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MS SCM). In 1920, the University of Minnesota became the 18th school to be accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In the 2017 CEOWORLD magazine ranking of the top 50 American colleges for accounting degrees, the Carlson School of Management ranked 2nd, behind BYU School of Accountancy.

Notable alumni

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* Curtis L. Carlson ('37 BA) – Chairman, Carlson Companies, Inc., namesake of the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management * Evan Kaufmann (born 1984), hockey player * John G. Stumpf (MBA) – Former CEO, Wells Fargo * Thomas O. Staggs (BSB) – Former COO, The Walt Disney Company * C. Elmer Anderson ('31 BBA, '83 PhD) – Minnesota governor, Minnesota state senator; chair & CEO, HB Fuller Co. * Richard Cyert ('43 BSB) – President, Carnegie Mellon University * Robert K. Jaedicke ('57 PhD) – Dean and professor emeritus,

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* Marcus Alexis ('59 PhD) – Dean, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Business Administration * Tony Dungy ('78 BSB) – Former head coach, Indianapolis Colts, National Football League * John Hammergren ('81 BSB) – Chairman and CEO,

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('83 BSB) – Co-owner, president of basketball operations and general manager, Minnesota Timberwolves, National Basketball Association; former head coach, Minnesota Timberwolves, National Basketball Association * Wan Ling Martello ('83 MBA) – Executive vice president, chief executive officer Zone Asia, Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa,

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* William Spell ('79 BSB, '82 MBA) – Founder and President of Spell Capital Partners, LLC

References

External links

Official website
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