Faculty & Staff Directory

Dean's Office

Praveen Aggarwal
Interim Dean

219E LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Jannifer David
Interim Associate Dean

219C LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Joseph Grant
Administrative Director

219L LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Payroll Manager and HR Services

213J LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Joyce Kyle
Assistant to the Dean

219J LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Daisy Wallace
Executive Office and Administrative Specialist / MBA Program Coordinator

219A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Communications Specialist

219K
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Economics & Health Care Management

Ariuna Taivan
Director of MBA Programs, Associate Professor of Economics

219B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Kim Dauner
Professor of Health Care Management and Director of Health Care Management

330L LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Luiggi Donayre
Associate Professor of Economics

330N LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics

330F LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Netty Kovach
Executive Office and Administrative Specialist

330A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Associate Professor of Health Care Management

330H LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Christopher McIntosh
Professor of Economics

330Q LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor of Economics

330T LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Gibson Nene
Associate Professor of Economics

330P LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Yufi Ren
Associate Professor of Economics

330M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Jennifer Schultz
Co-Director Health Care Management Program & Professor of Economics

330J LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Professor of Economics

330G LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Department Head and Associate Professor of Economics

330K LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

MBA Programs

Ariuna Taivan
Director of MBA Programs, Associate Professor of Economics

219B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Daisy Wallace
Labovitz MBA Program Coordinator

219A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Senior Program Officer, Rochester MBA Program

111 South Broadway
Suite 300
Rochester, MN 55904
United States

Advising & Academic Services

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Student Success Advisor

111K LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Jeremy Belanger
Director of Advising and Academic Services

111Q LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Kurt Guiding
Senior Academic Advisor

111G LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Executive Office and Administrative Specialist

111M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Internship Program Director
Kate Nelson DeShaw
Academic Advisor

111J LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Development Office

Suzanne Anderson
Development Director

213A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Financial Markets Program

Joe Artim
Director of Financial Markets Program and Instructor of Finance

112A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Accounting & Finance

Joe Artim
Director of Financial Markets Program and Instructor of Finance

112A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Rodger Brannan
Department Head and Associate Professor of Accounting

360D LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Angie Braud
Instructor of Accounting

360M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Instructor of Accounting

385K LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Hugo Hietapelto
Instructor of Finance

360K LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor of Finance

360H LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Kristen Lesemann
Executive Office and Administrative Specialist

360B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor of Accounting

360F LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Brian Lukasavitz
Assistant Professor of Business Law

385J LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Tim Peterson
Instructor of Finance

385F LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Assistant Professor of Finance

385L LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Roger Reinsch
Professor of Business Law

360L LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Assistant Professor of Finance

360G LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor of Accounting

360E LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Marketing

Dr. Marat Bakpayev 2023 portrait image
Associate Professor of Marketing and Marketing Department Head
Fall 2024: TBD OR by appointment (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/MBOfficeHours)

335E LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Director of the Professional Sales Program & Instructor of Marketing
Fall 2024: TBD or by appointment (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/JessGardner)

335K LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor of Marketing
Fall 2024: Tues. & Thrs 2-3pm or by appointment

335F LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor of Marketing
Fall 2024: TBD

335C LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Ahmed Maamoun
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Fall 2024: TBD or by appointment

335L LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Ruby Nancy
Assistant Professor of Business Communication
Fall 2024: Drop-In Hours (https://z.umn.edu/RNancyDrop-InHrs) or by appointment (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/RubyNancyCalendar) **plz mask during IN PERSON mtgs**

335R LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Dr. Joshua Ryoo
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Fall 2024: Mon & Wed 2:30-4pm or by appointment (https://calendar.app.google/86h1oBP8nT9VTy6b7)

335B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Steve Sharkey
Director of the Consumer Insights & Analytics (CIA) Program and Instructor of Marketing
Fall 2024: varies, ONLY by appointment - please schedule 8 hrs in advance (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/ssharkey-officehours)

212B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Executive Office & Administrative Specialist

335D LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Rajiv Vaidyanathan
Professor of Marketing
ONLY by appointment - please schedule 24 hrs in advance (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/rvofficehours)

335A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

2017 Professional Portrait of Dr. Junhua Wang
Associate Professor of Business Communications
Fall 2024: Single Semester Leave for Research. Return Spring 2025.

335M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Management Studies

Geoff Bell
Horace T. Morse Associate Professor; Faculty of Strategy

385C LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management Information Systems/Business Analytics

335U LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor; Faculty of Human Resource Management

385E LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Instructor of Management Information Systems/Business Analytics/POM/Management

365M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Nik Hassan
Professor; Faculty of Management Information Systems

365P LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

385B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Internship Program Director
Seung Lee
Associate Professor; Faculty of Management Information Systems

335T LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Organizational Behavior

365H LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Xin Liang
Department Chair and Professor; Faculty of Strategic and International Management

385A LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management

365F LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Assistant Professor; Faculty of Organizational Behavior

365R LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Kanhaiya Sinha
Associate Professor; Faculty of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

365B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Kara Ward
Executive Office & Administrative Specialist

365G LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Lin Xiu
Professor; Faculty of Human Resource Management

365D LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Wenqing Zhang
Associate Professor; Faculty of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Inaugural Kjell R. Knudsen Faculty Fellow for Innovation; IonE Fellow of the University of Minnesota; LSBE Summer Institute Coordinator

365Q LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Bureau of Business and Economic Research

Gina Grensing
Editor/Writer

330R LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics

330F LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Health Care Management

Kim Dauner
Professor of Health Care Management and Director of Health Care Management

330L LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Associate Professor of Health Care Management

330H LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Jennifer Schultz
Co-Director Health Care Management Program & Professor of Economics

330J LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Professional Sales

Jessica Gardner Portrait Image 2022
Director of the Professional Sales Program & Instructor of Marketing
Fall 2024: TBD or by appointment (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/JessGardner)

335K LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Technology Program

Kelly Johnson headshot
Executive Office and Administrative Specialist

111M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Emma Schroeder
Technology Coordinator

111R LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

Business Internship Program

Kelly Johnson headshot
Executive Office and Administrative Specialist

111M LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Internship Program Director

Consumer Insights & Analytics Program

Steve Sharkey
Director of the Consumer Insights & Analytics (CIA) Program and Instructor of Marketing
Fall 2024: varies, ONLY by appointment - please schedule 8 hrs in advance (view availability & sign up using https://z.umn.edu/ssharkey-officehours)

212B LSBE
1318 Kirby Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
United States

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Duluth, MN 55812
United States