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The Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota is proud to present the inaugural Elevate Career Advancement Conference for Professionals of Color, women, and allies on Wednesday, April 13.

As the former director of MN Cup, the nation’s largest statewide startup competition, Melissa Kjolsing was instrumental in helping businesses grow from small ideas to ones with big aspirations. Since leaving MN Cup in 2017, Kjolsing has worked for several small businesses, including as the CEO and co-founder of Recovree (a MN Cup division winner) and now as the chief growth officer at Reema Health.

Musician and producer Phil Thompson, ’07 BSB, joined the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) and the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit Minneapolis on a tribute video celebrating the GTCYS’s 50th anniversary. He shared how his degree helped him blend his musical and business ambitions, how entrepreneurship and entertainment combine, and how important it is for him to uplift communities with music.

Recent work from the Carlson School’s Marketing & Communications Department earned national recognition at the 37th Annual Educational Advertising Awards. In all, the school took home one gold, five silver, and one merit award for print and digital publications.

Three new fellows are joining the John DePodesta Leadership Fellowship program. The program provides graduate students in business, public policy, sociology, or education the opportunity to co-design or launch a new venture in partnership with existing educational organizations that seek to improve the quality of postsecondary education.

Through a recent experiential learning project, students in the Master of Marketing program helped LoveMplsParks with a variety of marketing initiatives: research, identification, and segmentation of target markets, creation of personas and journey maps, analysis of apparel prices, and creation of a new digital media strategy.

Carlson School Dean Sri Zaheer announced that she will “transition back to the faculty over the course of the next year.”

A sense of shared purpose, camaraderie, and solidarity was in full force in the McNamara Alumni Center on Friday, March 4, 2022 at the Women’s Leadership Conference, hosted by the Carlson School of Management.

Dorota Serafin, ‘06 WEMBA, is leading the team at Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) to provide critical humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees.

The Carlson MIS program undergraduate case team of Ariel Chau, ‘22 BSB, Eileen Chen, ‘22 BSB, Thomas Farrell, ‘22 BSB, and Madhava Raveendra, ‘23 BSB, earned divisional first place in Case I of CaseIT, the premier international MIS case competition in Vancouver, Canada.

Students in Carlson THRIVE participated in the annual U.S. Bank Case Challenge by imagining the future of business in the virtual world.

A leader with deep diversity, equity, and inclusion experience in business and academics, Angela Spranger, PhD, MBA, is the Carlson School’s first senior diversity officer and founding director of the Center for DEI in Business.