Faculty

Dr. Ravi Bapna is the Curtis L.

Frank Gigler came to the Carlson School from the University of Chicago where he taught for several years after receiving his doctorate.

Akshay R. Rao holds the General Mills Chair in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.  He has an undergraduate honors degree in Economics from Madras University (India), a Masters in Business Administration from XLRI (India), and a PhD in Marketing from Virginia Tech. In 2011, he was honored as a “Distinguished Alumnus” by XLRI (India).

Joseph P. Redden is a Professor of Marketing at the Carlson School of Management. He received his Ph. D. in Marketing from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania; MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; and BBA Accounting, BS Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.

Priti Pradhan Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Work and Organizations at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Her primary research areas are Social Networks, Teams and Decision-Making.

Myles Shaver is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management where he holds the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Corporate Strategy.

Andrew Winton has been at the Finance Department of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management since 1998. He was at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management from 1991 to 1998. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1980, an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) in 1982, and a Ph.D.

Aks Zaheer received his PhD in strategic management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Master's in Business from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.

Dr. Zellmer-Bruhn is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Chair of the Work and Organizations Department of the Carlson School of Management.  She received a bachelor's degree in marketing, a master's degree in management, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, all from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She joined the Carlson School of Management in 1999.

Svjetlana Madzar is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Department at CSOM. Her interests focus on collaboration within and across firms, and globally. She teaches courses such as Management of teams, Strategic alliances, and Competing globally, across several programs, including Global EMBA and DBA China.

Rick Nelson is a Senior Lecturer in Finance and Director of Undergraduate Finance Programs, Department of Finance, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He joined the Carlson School of Management faculty in 1997 and has over fifteen years of experience teaching numerous International, Executive MBA, MBA, Undergraduate and Executive Education courses in Finance.

Rand Park is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship. He currently teaches Corporate Responsibility and Ethics (MGMT 1005 and Honors MGMT 1005H), Corporate Responsibility and Ethics (CMBA 5824), and the Ethical Environment of Business (MBA 6315).

Rahul Koranne, MD, MBA, FACP, serves as the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Minnesota Hospital Association which strives to improve the health of communities across the state by collaborating with health systems throughout Minnesota. Rahul trained in internal medicine and holds a fellowship in Geriatrics from University of Minnesota.

Kevin Wilde currently serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.  He teaches applied leadership in a number of graduate courses.  His current research topics include leadership coachability, executive derailment and contemporary talent development.