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Welcome
to the website of the Department of Management Studies in the Labovitz
School of Business & Economics
at UMD. Our department has close to 20 faculty members with expertise
in the areas of entrepreneurship, health-care
management, human resource management, organization management, marketing,
and strategic management. We are proud to serve close to 500 students
who are majoring in HRM, management or marketing. Our faculty are
also heavily
involved in graduate education both in Duluth and Rochester.
Our
department has exceptionally dedicated and highly qualified faculty.
We have been recognized for our exceptional
teaching, advising, and research
scholarship. As a group, we have been awarded practically every teaching
award that’s out there for UMD faculty, including the Horace T. Morse
Award, Jean G. Blehart Distinguished Teaching Award, Beta Gamma Sigma
Outstanding Professor Award, SOCC Professor of the Year Award, and Hormel
Meritorious
Teaching Award. Our faculty have also won the campus-wide Outstanding
Advising and Service Awards. One of our colleagues won the campus-wide
Outstanding Researcher Award recently. Our faculty have consistently
contributed to
the body of knowledge in their respective fields. We publish in a variety
of refereed journals in our disciplines and several members of our faculty
have highly successful textbooks to their credit.
Our distinguished faculty are also very active in community service and
participation. We work closely with the Center for Economic Development
(CED) on Student-to-Business Initiative projects. Our student teams have
provided consulting help to more than a 100 small businesses over the past
few years. Our faculty serve on Editorial Boards of journals and provide
valuable service to professional and academic organizations in various capacities.
We are a student-centered department and take pride in creating a learning
environment that promotes creativity and a desire to learn. The Management
Studies Department provides its students with several opportunities to enrich
their learning experience beyond the classroom. Our students can enroll
in several of our student clubs such as ADMAR, SHRM, and PSE, among others.
Our
students find placement in a variety of organizations: small businesses
as well as large corporations, for-profit
as well as non-profit organizations,
and privately held as well as publicly traded businesses. Graduates of
our programs have been hired by firms such as IBM, Best Buy, 3M, Enterprise
Rent-A-Car, Federated Insurance, Kohls, Land’s End, Philip Morris,
Target, UPS, Metlife, Hershey Foods, Medtronics, Wells Fargo, and Johnson & Johnson.
If your
goal is to receive quality education in human resource management,
marketing, or organization management, LSBE and the Department of Management
Studies have the means, resources, and dedication to help you with that!
Happy surfing!
Praveen Aggarwal, Ph.D.
Department Head and Associate Professor of Marketing
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