PhD Department Staff

As the administrative center for the PhD in business administration, the program office offers various services for prospective and current students, faculty, and staff. We provide information on recruiting, applications and admissions, student funds, student progress monitoring, public relations, program promotions, policies, and procedures.

PhD Department Staff

Michelle Duffy

Michelle Duffy

Program Director and Director of Graduate Studies - Carlson School of Management

Michelle K. Duffy serves as the Director of Graduate Studies and PhD program at the Carlson School of Management. Professor Duffy has researched and published in the areas of leader behavior, employee well-being, emotion, and workplace deviance, including abusive supervision and social undermining. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal,  Journal of Management,  Organizational Behavior, and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. 

Amy Brown

Associate Director - Carlson School of Management

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Alex Hoppe

Alex Hoppe

Program Assistant - Carlson School of Management

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Meet our PhD Coordinators

Haiwen (Helen) Zhang
Carl L. Nelson Professor of Accounting, PhD Program Coordinator
Haiwen (Helen) Zhang, Carl L. Nelson Professor of Accounting, PhD Program Coordinator at Carlson School of Management.
Juliana Salomao
Assistant Professor
Juliana Salomao, Assistant Professor at Carlson School of Management. PhD in economics. Research focuses on sovereign and corporate credit markets.
Shawn Curley
Professor
Shawn Curley is a professor in the Information and Decision Sciences Department at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
Akshay Rao
Professor, General Mills Chair in Marketing
Akshay R. Rao, General Mills Chair in Marketing at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Expertise in consumer behavior and pricing strategy.
Karthik Natarajan
Associate Professor
Karthik Natarajan is an associate professor of Supply Chain and Operations at the Carlson School of Management and a Fellow of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota.
Aseem Kaul
Professor, The Mosaic Company - Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility
Aseem, Carlson School since 2009. PhD from Wharton. Research: firm scope, innovation, social and political strategies. Published in top journals.
Connie Wanberg
Professor and Industrial Relations Faculty Excellence Chair