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7 unusual facts about Carlson School of Management


Carlson School of Management

Flip Saunders (’83 BSB) – Co-owner, President of Basketball Operations & General Manager, Minnesota Timberwolves, National Basketball Association; Former Head Coach, Minnesota Timberwolves, National Basketball Association

Curtis L. Carlson (’37 BA) – Chairman, Carlson Companies, Inc., namesake of the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management

Tony Dungy (’78 BSB) – Former Head Coach, Indianapolis Colts, National Football League

C. Elmer Anderson (’31 BBA, ’83 PhD) – Minnesota Governor, Minnesota State Senator; Chair & CEO, HB Fuller Co.

2006 –Dean Alison Davis-Blake is named the first female dean of the Carlson School.

1986 – Curtis L. Carlson, Minnesota entrepreneur and founder of the Carlson Companies, gave the University of Minnesota a $25 million gift, which at the time was the largest single gift ever given to a public university.

Wheelock Whitney, Jr.

Whitney was a successful investment banker from 1957 until 1972, when he left the industry to teach at the Carlson School of Business.


James T. Prokopanko

Prokopanko serves on the board of directors for Mosaic, Canpotex, the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, The Fertilizer Institute and the International Plant Nutrition Institute.


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