My name is Brad Greenwood. I’m currently Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. Originally, I’m from outside Boston, a town called Merrimack New Hampshire. I've lived in Indiana, DC, New York, the great fighting city of Philadelphia, and now I'm in the Twin Cities. For hobbies, I suppose you don't need hobbies when you love your job, but I am a budding amateur bartender. For years, I have hoped to become an avid cyclist, but I’ve retained my position as simply someone who rides a bicycle despite all attempts otherwise.

I am not involved in the undergraduates at Carlson, much to my dismay. I always really enjoyed being part of the undergraduate program. That being said, like most of the trends of business schools as of late, we are heavily investing in specialized masters, which includes Masters in Accountancy, Business Analytics, Taxation, Finance, HR, Supply Chain. The Carlson school has a very large PhD program as well, in addition to the full and part time MBAs which were the only game in town on a large scale research school expected here in the Twin Cities. Given the location, Twin Cities is a hot bed, almost like Delaware is, for corporate headquarters; we get a lot of local recruiting like 3M, Land O’ Lakes, Medtronic, Target, Best Buy, Polaris, General Mills, the classic Minnesota companies. Given the scope of Carlson, we have a relatively large presence in a lot of recruiting among like Deloitte, EY, Wells Cargo, Travellers, the standard group that you think of as hiring a lot of undergraduate and graduate business students; we have full presence locally and globally.

The opportunities that you get at a place like the University of Minnesota are relatively straightforward. You have a big world class research faculty that is nice both for undergraduate education and from a specialized masters perspective. Where as you may get some things more jammed-in in a general MBA, in the specialized masters you have a lot of direct hiring; specifically four people in our faculty are specifically world class in that area. If you look at the Masters of Science and Business Analytics, not only do you get some more traditional business people like myself, you have people like Ed McFowland who's a world class anomaly detection guy, who's hired specifically to make sure that we have an unsupervised learning platform which is at the top of its game. In terms of misconceptions, at Minnesota there's a series of things like lack of gender equality in the workplace. There's a series of diverse initiatives which Carlson clearly hosts, such as the cross women's initiative, military veterans initiative. There's a series of leadership initiatives which the school runs as well, like leadership in the Minnesota club. There are a couple of different initiatives to try and dispel this idea that it should only be men or white men going into business specifically here at the U.