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
Juliana Salomao
Assistant Professor
Yi Zhu
Margaret J. Holden and Dorothy A. Werlich Endowed Professor
Karthik Natarajan
Associate Professor
Aseem Kaul
Professor, The Mosaic Company - Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility