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Video creator: Group 2
Class: Social Media Marketing
Professor: Dr. Matthew Lunde taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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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! taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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8 days ago

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 @shma_umdduluth taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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9 days ago

Video creator: Group 1
Class: Social Media Marketing
Professor: Dr. Matthew Lunde taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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10 days ago

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!! 🎥 taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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11 days ago

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! taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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16 days ago

Mitchell Erickson, a management and finance major at the University of Minnesota Duluth, turned a networking opportunity into an impactful summer internship at Marvin. Working with fellow interns, he co-developed an AI-driven tool built to help Marvin’s customer service department navigate internal documentation more efficiently. On track to complete his undergraduate degrees in just three years and transition into UMD’s 4+1 Integrated MBA program, Erickson credits active involvement in campus organizations and UMD's networking culture for fueling his academic and professional success.

Learn more about his story: https://bit.ly/4yqyW11 Three individuals are seated around a conference table in a modern office setting. They are facing a television screen displaying a bar chart with the heading "Pok Points." Laptops are open on the table, and the room features glass walls and soft lighting. by @umdlabovitz

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16 days ago

As far as clubs go here in our business school, we're pretty sure @duluthwomeninbusiness 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! taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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21 days ago

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 @umd.cia 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. #umdPROUD #proudtobeLSBE taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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22 days ago

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!👏👏 taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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24 days ago

Business Career Fair is this week! On Thurs, Sept 24, 10am-2pm, we’ll have a variety of employers here on campus wanting to chat with you. They’ll be recruiting for internships & post-grad jobs. Not looking for anything? Career fairs are a great place to do research on career paths & different types of organizations.
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[Image Text]: September 24, 2026. Business Career Fair. 10am-2pm | Kirby Ballroom. Why Attend: find an internship or post-grad job, learn about potential career paths, network with employers for future opportunities. z.umn.edu/BusinessFairCampus Graphic announcing a career fair Text in caption. taken in University of Minnesota Duluth by @umdlabovitz

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25 days ago

When people first meet Dan Fishback without knowing anything about him, they would easily think "Great guy. Reminds me of someone I know. He'd fit right in with us on our annual friends fishing trip."

Well, he actually IS the guy who'd fit right in on the fishing trip...but also what they might not know is that Dan is actually a (now-retired!) long-time NATIONAL leader in retail and consumer analytics...

...who led several companies in Silicon Valley and otherwise - and most notably, DemandTec, Inc. - to *major* success.

(He's also a UMD grad 🐾 business school/LSBE ‘83!)

So, we mentioned ALL of this last year, and we'll CONTINUE to mention it every year that he and his wife LB travel to Minnesota to visit the students of our UMD LSBE Consumer Insights & Analytics Program.

For background: Dan literally founded the CIA program in 2011 - then known as Retail Marketing & Analytics or ReMAP - all because he saw a market need, wanted to give back, and be part of the solution.

Today and for the past several years Dan and LB provide each CIA student with a nice scholarship via the Fishback Family Foundation. The scholarship helps students by offsetting the cost of landing an internship in a new city, provide new data software, and more.

So when the Fishbacks once again visited with LSBE's senior and junior CIA cohorts this year (with CIA program director Steve Sharkey)...

....Dan and LB asked these CIA students about their 2026 summer internships, their future plans, all of it. They listened with such genuine, intent interest and pride, it was amazing.

(Check out the accompanying photos. Dan and LB absolutely LOVE meeting with the CIA students, hearing about their internship experiences, and vice versa.)

And the students were thrilled to tell them about what they accomplished...and what the Fishbacks' scholarship donations meant to their professional development.

Huge thanks to the Dan and LB Fishback for being here and AGAIN being so wonderful to our students, and thanks to our CIA students for making us proud, as usual.

Great stuff. taken in Labovitz School of Business and Economics, UMD by @umdlabovitz

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