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The Carlson Full-Time MBA The Carlson MBA offers access to award-winning faculty and an international network of esteemed alumni, opportunities for global exploration and hands-on projects with real clients, lifelong connections to a diverse and supportive community of peers, and so much more. Reach youR Full Potential and achieve youR Best caReeR ACHIEVING Get Real-WoRld CAREER GOALS Sara Moret won a coveted WoRk exPeRience internship and full-time position with one of the in youR chosen world’s top consulting firms— Pursuing your MBA shouldn’t take you Bain & Co.—despite lacking Field out of the workforce: Emerge from your career experience in the field. MBA program with real-world experience Prior to earning her MBA, she Test-drive a new industry in the industry you’re passionate about. worked in a strategy role at a The Carlson School Enterprise Programs financial services organization. challenge students to solve real business And at that time, when she Fortify your envisioned where she’d like résumé problems for leading clients who expect real-world results. Throughout three her career to lead, she realized strategic problem-solving really semesters, you’ll complete numerous Master excited her. Moret enrolled in-demand engagements with real companies. in the Carlson Full-Time MBA skills Program, driven to realize her goal. She participated in the Carlson Consulting Enterprise: Brand Consulting Funds Ventures A program in which Carlson Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Get hands-on Assess, break Manage the analysis, Launch your own MBA students assess, break experience with down, and solve securities, trading, business or partner down, and solve real business brand and marketing business challenges and compliance for with established challenges for premiere client consulting for premiere client two real funds valued companies to develop organizations. This experience, organizations at $35 million innovative concepts along with the knowledge derived from her professors and peers, prepared Moret to thrive in her dream jobs—first at Bain & Co. and now as a Lead Strategist, Enterprise “the enterprise gave me a safe place to learn, make Strategy Development at Target. mistakes, and build a community of peers i plan to leverage for the rest of my career.” —SARa Moret, ’16 MBA Lead Strategist, Enterprise Strategy Development, Target Poets & Quants’ Best and Brightest: Class of 2016 Analytics in Business Arts Club Join a Business Technology Club 25+ Carlson 4 Community ORGANIZATIONS aND CLUbs CATEr to a vARIETY Carlson Marketing Network tiGht-k nit OF PROFEssIONAL, Compass SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ANd aTHLETIC Consulting Club INTERESTS Elite Eight Brand Management Case Competition community Energy Club Food and Agriculture Club Finance Club oF esteemed Global Business Student Association Graduate Volunteer Consultants Graduate Women in Business PeeRs Health & Wellness Club Investment Club MBA Association 10 MBA Craft Beverage Association FACULTy lEAD THe CORe CURRICULAR Medical Industry Leadership Institute Student EXPERIENCE AND Association PROVIDE ONE-ON-ONE Military Veterans of the Carlson School of Management ATTENTIOn tO The modest class size in the Full- STUDENTS Minneapolis/St. Paul Small Business Case Competition Mosiac Time MBA Program ensures each Neighborhood Business Fellows student receives personal attention Net Impact Meet A FEw PROfessORS Outdoor Adventure Club from professors and advisors. Partner’s Club The community has developed a Sports Business Club collaborative, welcoming, supportive Supply Chain & Operations Club culture that is unmatched among MBA programs. And while the program is small, it’s also diverse: Each and every student brings unique expertise to enrich the experience for everyone. 287 STUDENTS MAKe up tHE CARLSOn FULL-TIME MARKetINg PROfessORS VLAD STRateGIC MANAGemeNT & STRateGIC MANAGemeNT & MBA PROGRAM GRISKEVICIUS AND KATHLEEN ENTRepRENEURSHIP PROfessOR ENTRepRENEURSHIP PROfessOR VOHS ARE amONg THE 40 MOst MYLES SHAVER hOLds THE IRWIN SHAKER ZAHRA eaRNed OUtstaNDINg BUSINess scHOOL OUtstaNDINg EDUcatOr AWARD THE GLObal AWARD FOR PROfessORS in THE wORLD –Academy of Management, 2014 ENTREPRENEURSHIP —Poets & Quants, 2014 –The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research, 2014 TYPIcal INCOMINg CLass PROFILE* 30% WOMEN 95 690 3.45 4.74 28.67 21% INteRNatIONAL stUdeNts MedIAn GMAT MedIAn GPA AVERAGE WORK AVERAGE AGE DUAl- EXpeRIENce 14% MINORITY DEGRee 13 (In yeaRS) 18% MILITARY *Based on incoming class data from 2014-18 Carlson MBa Grad at-a-GlanCe: Joe BRaman “the community is what i enjoyed most about carlson. this community has welcomed me with open arms, supported me personally and professionally, and i have created lifelong friendships Carlson Foundation along the way.” —Joe BrAMan, ’16 MBA Chair and ProFessor Vlad Griskevicius Carlson ventures “one of the most enterPrise direCtor engaging professors in Toby Nord the entire university.” “Challenges me in my way of thinking in ways that no MENTORS other professor has ever been able to.” the toro ComPany- david m. lilly Chair and ProFessor Theresa Glomb “helps students explore their potential as authentic leaders.” Career Experience Education Experiential Learning Community Involvement Honors and Awards Fellowship Support Co-Founder of Braman Brothers Former financial Holds a BA in rhetoric Participated in the Founder of Compass: A student Recipient of the Recipient of the Sands Fellowship: Real Estate, LLP, part of Coldwell services and communication Ventures Enterprise: A organization that shapes a more University of Minnesota A $5,000 financial award that Banker Burnet: A residential real professional and studies from Lewis hands-on program in welcoming community for LGBTQ Mary A. McEvoy Award supports a select number of Carlson estate sales and development entrepreneur & Clark College, and which students work with students at the Carlson School and for Public Engagement MBA student entrepreneurs to company that helps people buy an MBA from the real-world clients to test the larger business community. Serves and Leadership develop their ideas for making their and sell homes in the Twin Cities Carlson School of business ideas, create on the board of LGBTQ advocacy community a better place metro area while increasing Management business plans, and organization OutFront Minnesota families’ access to safe, affordable, launch start-ups and ethically managed housing connect With hundReds ELIse MAXWELL’S oF comPanies RecRuitinG CAReeR JOURNEY VOLUNTEERS Centered in the heart of a thriving At a wOMEN’S toP talent business community, the Carlson HEALTh CLINIC RECEIVES BA iN School has close ties to hundreds of BIOLOGy FROM LEWIS 96% companies that recruit students like & CLARk COLLEGE STUDIES SPIDER of graduates received you. The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro PHYLOGENETIcs iN employment offers within is home to 18 Fortune 500 companies, THe BINFORd LAB 90 days after graduation.* MANAGES an oUTREACH and hosts a variety of start-ups and PROGRAM to gEt MORE UNDERREPRESENTED mid-sized organizations that span POPULATIONS INTERESTED 100% dozens of industries. And while In MATh aNd scIENCE of students received MOVES tO internship offers.* there are endless opportunities in MINNEAPOLIS, MN the school’s backyard, the Graduate BEGINS CAREER Business Career Center (GBCC) also At MINNEAPOLIS 130 PUBLIC SCHOOLS companies recruited places graduates in careers nationwide DESIGNS tEACHEr eVALUATION SYSTEM to aDDREss tHE students. and internationally. ACHIEVEMENT GAP JOINS tHe CARLSON MBA CLAss oF 2016 PARTICIPATES in STARTUP CAREER SERVIces PROGRAM to dEVELOp aND REFINe BUSINEss iDEAS The Graduate Business Career Center employs one career coach for every LAUNCHES OVA WOMAN eight Carlson Full-Time MBA students. The 25 career coaches provide To SPUr a rEVOLUTION personalized career services to help you achieve your unique goals. The In wOMEN’S hEALTH GBCC offers the following services and resources: EARNS tHe SANDS FELLOWSHIp tO DEVELOp OVa WOMAN Career Career Mock Job Search Networking Résumé Career Negotiation PARTICIPATES in tHE Counseling Tests Interviews Tools Events Reviews Fairs Strategies CARLSON VENTURES ENTERPRISE WINS tHe AcARA CHALLENGE WINS tHe STUDENT DIVISIOn oF tHE “Whether you’re into marketing, technology, MN CUP GRADUATES FROM tHE consulting—the carlson school is placing students CARLSOn SCHOOL at the best companies. you can get anywhere CONTINUES to gROW OVa WOMAn aS from carlson and compete with the FOUNDEr aNd CEO best of mBa candidates from around OVA WOmaN the world.” —Mike JenningS, ’15 MBA IS A WOmeN’S HeaLTh adVOcacY Product Manager, LinkedIn GROUP THat specIALIZes In maRKet ReseaRCH AND HUMAN-ceNteRed desIGN FOR WOMEN’S INTImate HeaLTH PRODUcts AND seRVIces. THE VENTURE SUppORts RetaILERS, maNUfactURERS, AND seRVIce PROVIdeRS IN meetING THE INTImate HeaLTH Needs OF WOMEN. *Based on data from 2015-17 access a PoWerful alumni netWoRk The Carlson School network is composed of more than 55,000 alumni in over100 countries around the world. These influential business leaders provide mentoring, career advice, and professional endorsements to Carlson MBA students. Someday, you will join their esteemed ranks. NOtabLE CARLSOn MBA ALUMNI Head of Industry, Finance GooGle UNLOCKINg A WORLD Addie Braun OF WIsdOM Chairman, President, Thompson Aderinkomi, ’11 MBA, credits his economically—that is what we want more than and CEO success to the networking opportunities anything.” So he began mapping the model for u.s. BanCorP afforded by the Carlson