HSB Award Winners

The Hamline School of Business Alumni Board of Directors began awarding the HSB Alumni Association Awards in 2014. Award winner bios and photos are from the year the award was given. 

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2016-2017 HSB Award Recipients 

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Outstanding Faculty Award

Dave Berg

Dave Berg joined the Hamline faculty in 2009, teaching Strategic Management/Capstone, International Business and related courses; he also served as director of the Hamline MBA Program. He has led more than 15 short-term study abroad courses, including Hamline graduate International seminars to China, Vietnam, Italy, and India.

Dave’s research explores global competition and the adaptation of firm strategies for globalized markets; he also publishes in the area of international business education. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota, a Master of Arts in International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina, and a BA from St. Olaf College.

Previously, he served on the business faculties of the University of Texas-Dallas and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has worked in international treasury operations, import/export, and financial analysis, and is a Certified Management Accountant and a member of both the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business.

 

 

Distinguished Achievement Award

Ingrid Christensen MAM ’06

Ingrid Christensen graduated from the Hamline School of Business in 2006 with a Master of Arts in Management. Upon graduation, Ingrid founded INGCO International, a global language services firm providing corporate on-site interpreting and document translation in over 200 languages. A certified woman-owned business, INGCO works with Fortune 500 companies like 3M, HB Fuller and Nike as well as many small and mid-sized companies and nonprofit organizations.

Ingrid serves on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce and the American Red Cross. She is also an appointed member to the Minnesota District Export Council and has been honored for her work and community commitment by the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Business Journal as a ‘40 Under 40’ in 2013, the Leader of the Pack award from the National Wolf Center, the Innovation in Service award on behalf of the National Association of Woman Owned Businesses, and multiple Deubener Awards from the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce.

Ingrid resides in Minneapolis with her 11-year old son, who attends a French immersion school.

2015-2016 HSB Award Recipients

Outstanding Faculty Award


Jenny Keil

Jenny Keil has been on the faculty at Hamline University since 1999. Currently, she is the Management, Marketing and Public Administration Department Chair, and teaches undergraduate courses in economics and management, as well as leadership and management courses for MBA students.

The common theme throughout her research is how women interact with and are impacted by the economy. In particular, her research focuses on labor market issues such as individual/household work decisions, work/family balance issues and the impact of variable pay on the gender pay differential.

Keil's first book Earn More, Move Up: A New Look at the Gender Pay Differential, was published by the Center for Economic Progress in November 2006. Keil makes several local, regional, and national presentations on women, the economy, and pay. She holds a PhD and an MBA degree from the University of Kansas, and a BBA degree from the University of Michigan.

Distinguished Achievement Award


Leah Porter Driscoll MNM ’12

Over the course of her 13-year career, Leah Porter Driscoll has developed innovative and award-winning programs for various organizations and has raised more than $16 million in support. In 2013, she brought her personal passion (and Hamline master’s capstone) to life by co-founding the Twin Cities Mobile Market with her husband, Mike. She now leads the program under the auspices of the Wilder Foundation.The Twin Cities Mobile Market increases access to healthy, affordable foods for people living in “food deserts” and other low-wealth neighbor-hoods. The program has already served more than 2,000 people and received the Ramsey County Public Health Award in 2015.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in English-Writing from the University of Northwestern and a Master’s in Nonprofit Management from Hamline University. She has volunteered for numerous nonprofits. She currently serves on the board of Training to Serve, an organization that works to improve the quality of life of LGBT people as they age, and she is leading a community-based suicide prevention initiative in her neighborhood. Leah lives in St. Paul with her husband and two dogs.

2014-2015 HSB Award Recipients

OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD

Dan Lehmann

Dan Lehmann came to Hamline with nearly 30 years of experience as a senior executive in multinational companies. He has lived on two continents and worked on five in a broad array of assignments – leading finance, supply chain and administrative functions, coordinating acquisitions, mergers and divestures, and managing global system implementations and new product launches.

Dan teaches finance in the undergraduate program, and finance and critical thinking in the MBA program. In both programs he works to “flip the classroom” and focuses on case analysis. Experiential learning is an integral part of his classes, especially the Workshop in Applied Investing, where students invest a small portion of the Hamline University endowment.

Dan received both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in agricultural economics (College of Agriculture) and a PhD in finance (College of Business) from the University of Illinois. Dan and his wife, Roxane (PhD educational psychology, University of Minnesota) have a daughter, Ashton, who graduated in neuroscience from Middlebury College and Harvard Medical School, and a son, Dent, who is deceased.

DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sharon Lubinski MPA ’92

Sharon J. Lubinski is in her 37th year of law enforcement in local and federal agencies. She was a patrol deputy and a criminal investigator for the Dane County Sheriff’s Department in Madison, Wisconsin for over eight years. From 1987 to January of 2010 she worked for the Minneapolis Police Department, working in each of the five Minneapolis police precincts, and rising through the ranks to Assistant Chief of Police.In 2001, Sharon received the Police Executive Research Forum’s Gary Hayes Award for Initiative in Policing for the Minnesota HEALS Homicide Reduction in Minneapolis.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree from Hamline University. She was an adjunct faculty member for Hamline University’s Criminal Justice Program prior to her current position.

In 2009, Sharon was named by Senator Amy Klobochar as a candidate for the United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota. She was nominated by President Obama in October, and confirmed by the United States Senate in December of 2009. Since January of 2010, she has served as the United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota.