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Suzanne Niemi - who teaches Production and Operations Management here at UMD LSBE - took this stunner of a photo of our ...
10/16/2026

Suzanne Niemi - who teaches Production and Operations Management here at UMD LSBE - took this stunner of a photo of our building this morning. 🌈

Happy Friday, everyone.

10/14/2026

Video creator: Group 2
Class: Social Media Marketing
Professor: Dr. Matthew Lunde

Great stuff here: Our Professional Sales Program had a recent meeting and lunch with their Advisory Council, along with ...
10/08/2026

Great stuff here:

Our Professional Sales Program had a recent meeting and lunch with their Advisory Council, along with Sales Club leadership AND very special guest Bryan Obeidzinski - a 1988 alumni of UMD LSBE!

Anyway, we were able to snap a quick photo of this fantastic group in front of the Labovitz building entrance on a perfect Duluth day.

Here's who's in this photo (from left to right!)
• John Marquette / UMD Sales Club VP of Strategy and Ops
• Jack German / UMD Sales Club co-VP of Company Relations
• Paige Ondler / UMD Sales Club co-VP of Strategy and Ops
• John Kratz / Chair, Professional Sales Program Advisory Council / Retired LSBE Faculty
• Will Hornblad / UMD Sales Club Sales Summit President
• Bill Drazkowski / Professional Sales Program Council Member AND LSBE Deans Business Advisory Council Member / EVP of Sales, Fastenal
• Mitchell Erickson / UMD Sales Club VP of Outreach
• Dr. Wenqing Zhang / Marketing Department Head, UMD LSBE
• Dan Moseley / Professional Sales Program Advisory Council Member / Managing Director, Northwestern Mutual
• Jessica Gardner / UMD LSBE Professional Sales Program Director
• Bryan Obeidzinski / Distinguished LSBE alumni / Major Account Manager, Arista Networks, Inc.
• Christian Dietz / UMD Sales Club President

Several Advisory Council members were also able to attend online! They include Amanda Goodman / VP of Enterprise Operations, Avenica; Ron Holm / Co-founder and President, Track Selling; and Clint Miller / VP of Sales, Loffler.

Great day with great people! Thanks all!
Kratz is Chair of Advisory Council

We typically extend an offer to LSBE clubs to take individual "LinkedIn-esque" photos 📸 of club members.....which oftent...
10/07/2026

We typically extend an offer to LSBE clubs to take individual "LinkedIn-esque" photos 📸 of club members...
..which oftentimes leads to us taking a group photo of the ENTIRE club or just club leadership.

Then we steal the group photos or leadership photos and post them to our socials.

Mostly to brag about them.

Anyway, HERE we have a photo of Student Healthcare Management Association (SHMA) leadership, which includes President Ashley Romanchuk, Secretary Iiman Hersi, Treasurer Ireland Johnson, and Marketing Director Elizabeth Hare.

NOT shown is VP Clara Stinson, who was probably doing MBA stuff at the time. That's PURELY SPECULATION. (She's in the 4+1 MBA program. Ahem.)

Anyway, 🙌 to Student Healthcare Management Association

10/05/2026

OKAY, so for Dr. Matt Lunde's "Social Media Marketing" class, he asked his students to make 8 different social media videos...
..that would "sell" UMD and LSBE to potential new students.

We're going to post a new one every Tuesday for 8 weeks, beginning on October 6th.

We can't WAIT for you to see their work. Good. Stuff.

Stay tuned!! 🎥

09/30/2026

The Take Your Professor to Lunch Program.

A great way to grab a FREE meal and build relationships with LSBE professors!

So, grab a couple friends, grab a professor and get to know them outside of the classroom and office hours.

To learn more and to register visit z.umn.edu/lunchwithyourprofessor or click the link in the bio!

As far as clubs go here in our business school, we're pretty sure UMD Women In Business is one of our largest and most e...
09/25/2026

As far as clubs go here in our business school, we're pretty sure UMD Women In Business is one of our largest and most engaged.

And that's saying a LOT because we have a lot of amazing clubs here in Labovitz.

ANYWAY, we thought we thought we'd shown you a few fun photos of the WIB officers Sammy Solberg, Elaine Mei, Kaylee Swenson, Sofie Anderson, and Teresa Rotondo working hard in the club room and then getting a formal photo on the 3rd floor.

Proud to have the entire group of Women in Business representing LSBE and UMD like the amazing people they are! Go WIB!

We're big fans; no...HUGE fans of when UMD LSBE alumni come back to talk to our students about what they're up to. Today...
09/24/2026

We're big fans; no...HUGE fans of when UMD LSBE alumni come back to talk to our students about what they're up to.

Today, Louise Scharin (Consumer Insights & Analytics, Marketing '26), Daria Weinzierl (Consumer Insights & Analytics, Marketing '22), and Maddie Hoepner (Consumer Insights & Analytics '26) stopped by to chat about their experiences working at 3M (all current 3M employees in analytics!) with the Consumer Insights & Analytics cohorts!

With them is fellow standout LSBE alumna Sophie Scharin. Sophie is is an LSBE Financial Markets program grad ('22!) and current Senior Associate - Technology Risk Consulting for RSM, and not here to speak to CIA students.

She's here more for the "I drove my younger sister Louise up to Duluth" reason. 🙃

Wonderful to see all of you, and thank you for coming back to see us and showing current students how Labovitz grads make things happen.

These students (and Dean Praveen Aggarwal in the middle!) make up the UMD Labovitz School's Student Advisory Council. Th...
09/23/2026

These students (and Dean Praveen Aggarwal in the middle!) make up the UMD Labovitz School's Student Advisory Council. They're Dr. Aggarwal's eyes and ears when it comes to student issues, improvements, ideas, and much MUCH more. He meets with this council of students from all business majors to gauge how things are going, and they're CRUCIAL to making meaningful change in LSBE that best serves our students. We're lucky to have such a wonderful group year after year, and we'd like to introduce you you this year's Council: Amelia Chelgren, Amal Mohamed, Aidan Thornton, Annika Wolters, Aric Randolph, Savan Sant, Noah Mecklin, and Court Bragg!👏👏

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