MSB Faculty & Visiting Scholars

Dr. Madden is a strategist, researcher, teacher, facilitator and design thinker. She is also a Nonprofit Management Research Fellow, a Fowler Sustainability Fellow and a Management Design Fellow. Her book, Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design in the Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Series examines how collaborations can overcome barriers to innovate and rejuvenate communities by outlining the factors and antecedents that influence successful collaboration. The book proposes a theoretical perspective for collaborators to adopt the language of designers, evidence-based tools and strategies to enable success. It outlines her journey from research to action resulting in a “Collaboration Blueprint” that assisted community-based nonprofit organizations to secure over $13.5M in grant funding (with nearly $9M raised in a single year).

Education

• B.A., economics and American studies, Case Western Reserve University
• Master’s in nonprofit management, Case Western Reserve University
• Ph.D., Weatherhead School of Management

Publications

Washington, M. L., Madden, J. R., Clevenger, M. R., & Miao, C. (2022). The Power of Entrepreneurs and Social Systems: Driving Forces for Empowerment, Mitigating Disempowerment, and Advancing Equity. In Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems (pp. 100-142). Routledge.

Chupp, M., Madden, J., & Yankey, J. (2022, May 18). Strategic planning. In Encyclopedia of Social Work.

Washington, M. L., & Madden, J. R. (2020). Collaboration & Design Thinking: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Redefining the Next Normal and Creating Resilient Ecosystems. Review of Business Research, 20(1), 61-74.

Washington, M. L., & Madden, J. R. (2020). Social Media Induced Technostressors and its Impact on Productivity and Work/Home Conflict Pre COVID-19. International Journal of Business Research, 20(2), 50-62.

Madden, J. (2018). Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Series). New York, NY: Routledge.

Peters, S. E., Nielsen, K. M., Nagler, E. M., Revette, A. C., Madden, J., & Sorensen, G. (2019). Ensuring Organization-Intervention Fit for a Participatory Organizational Intervention to Improve Food Service Workers’ Health and Wellbeing: Workplace Organizational Health Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Madden, J. (2018, March 1). Keys to a Successful Affordable Housing Cross-Sector Collaboration. How Housing Matters.

Madden, J. (2017). Reimagining Collaboration: Insight from Leaders of Affordable-Housing Cross-Sector Collaborations on Successful Collaboration Design, Performance, and Social Innovation. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 7(3), 182–196.

Madden, J. (2017). It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: the doctoral journey of a female African American, Management Ph.D. In Artenie, C., & Davis, D. J., (Eds.), Specialists: Passions and Careers (pp. 81-84). Montreal: Universitas Press.

Madden, J. (2015). Leveraging Design: How the Design Process and a Design Framework Strengthens Nonprofit Management Pedagogy. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 5(1), 6-11.

Madden, J. (2011). Overcoming Collaborations Barriers in Affordable Housing Public-Private Partnerships. Academy of Management Annual Proceedings, (Best Papers Meeting Supplement), 1-6. 

Academic interests

Her research is on designing effective cross-sector partnerships then leveraging those collaborations to build capacity for effective performance and social innovation. She is passionate about economic development, solution finding, bringing ideas to fruition and training the next generation of innovative design thinkers (and change agents) for system-level change and positive deviance.

Denise Farag, associate professor of business law and associate dean for graduate programs and new initiative in the School of Business, joined Linfield in 2008. Denise co-created the Sport Management program at Linfield and was instrumental in the launch of the Master of Science in business program. She was the Linfield University Samuel H. Graf Faculty Achievement Award winner in 2020. Denise is past President of the Pacific Northwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business (PNALSB) and a staff editor for the American Business Law Journal, the premier peer-reviewed journal in business law. She was awarded the national Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research for her article published in the Journal of Legal Studies in Education. Denise is also a licensed attorney and member of the Oregon State Bar. Before becoming a faculty member at Linfield, Denise was a practicing business law, tax, and estate planning attorney.

Education

• B.S., Linfield College (magna cum laude)
• J.D., Willamette University College of Law

Academic Interest

Denise’s academic interests include tax law, laws impacting small businesses and nonprofit/exempt organizations, and sports law. Her current work focuses on Esport and Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) issues on college campuses.

Chris Dahlvig joined the faculty of Linfield in 2018 where he teaches courses in accounting. Chris spent 20 years working in the not-for-profit sector in various accounting roles in a wide range of industries including higher education, outdoor ministry, healthcare, e-waste recycling and philanthropy. As controller for Inland Northwest Community Foundation, Chris accounted for more than $100M in assets which generated nearly $7M in grants annually for the region. Many of his career highlights include process improvements that led to significant time savings including the development of a payables process that reduced staff time by more than 98%.

Chris loves the Green Bay Packers and '80s techno-pop. His interests include running 5ks with his wife and reading books while drinking good coffee.

Education

• B.A., accounting, Whitworth University
• M.B.A., Northwest Christian University
• C.P.A.

Academic interests:

Chris teaches Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting II, Cost Accounting, and Government and Not For Profit Accounting. Chris spent 20 years working in the not-for-profit sector in various accounting roles in a wide range of industries including higher education, outdoor ministry, healthcare, e-waste recycling and philanthropy.

Dr. Crosley joined Linfield in 2009, where she teaches management and accounting courses, both on-campus and online. During the 2021-22 academic year, she became associate dean for undergraduate programs in the School of Business. She served as the interim provost for the university in spring and summer 2023.

Previously, Dr. Crosley held management positions with the State of Oregon, the last of which was director of the employment department. During her five-plus years as director, she was responsible for 47 field offices across Oregon and more than 1,500 employees. She has also taught at other higher education institutions in either the role of adjunct instructor or visiting professor, including universities in Shanghai, China and Nurtingen, Germany. Her academic interests include workforce development, human resources management and other employment-related laws and managerial and tax accounting.

Education

• B.S., management, Linfield College (magna cum laude)
• M.P.A., Lewis and Clark College
• D.B.A., George Fox University

Academic interests:

Leadership, sustainability and ethics.

Change Management for Competitive Advantage

• Associate Professor of Management & Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship – Shenandoah University.
• Former Senior Managing Consultant and Service Area Manager for IBM. Specialized in Change Management and Human Capital Management. Instructor for IBM’s Change, Culture and Leadership Course. Led business transformation engagements through the lens of organization change management, organization design and technology assimilation. Focused on user adoption of collaborative and social technologies for the public sector (Federal, State, Local governments)
• Society for Human Resources Management – Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
• Certified Scrum Master – ScrumAlliance
• Ph.D., Management (Case Western Reserve University); MBA (Johns Hopkins University) BS, English (University of Maryland)

MSB Course: Hacking, Designing & Disruptive Technology

• Executive Director, Third Horizon Initiatives, Arizona State University
• Internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on cybersecurity, how hackers think, blockchain, and normal chaos.
• Designed systems and processes at the U.S. Dept. of Defense (DoD), enabling the government, military and autonomous systems to withstand and recover quickly from adversarial interruptions
• Executive Advisor and Cyber Strategist at Booz Allen Hamilton, a multinational strategic consulting firm
• Trusted adviser and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and governments worldwide.
• Hailed as being one of the world’s leading hackers, University of Maryland College Park

Education

• Ph.D., Management (Case Western Reserve University); MS, Information Security Policy & Management (Carnegie Mellon University); BA (Elizabeth City State University)

Designing & Developing High-Impact Teams

Associate Professor of Design & Innovation, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of the Regulatory Knowledge Core, and Associate Director of Academic Affairs at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Cola teaches research methods, leadership, team development, and research dissemination.

Dr. Cola is a research manager and practitioner-scholar with over 25 years of experience. Prior to joining the faculty full-time at Case, Dr. Cola was Vice President for Research and Technology Management at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center for 21 years where he oversaw the Institutional Review Board, clinical research compliance, grants administration, research finance, and clinical research education and training.

Education

Ph.D., Management (Case Western Reserve University); MA, Experimental Psychology (Cleveland State University)

Dr. Putnam joined Linfield from 2017-2024. He taught courses in financial management, investments, financial institutions, personal finance and advanced topics in finance. His research interests include asset pricing, in particular commodity futures and financial institutions. He embraces application-based learning and makes every effort to weave in real-life examples to his course work.

Prior to joining Linfield, Dr. Putnam was an assistant professor of finance at the Marilyn Davies College of Business at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) where he taught undergraduate courses in investments, business finance and personal finance, as well as graduate courses in corporate finance, investments, financial forecasting, behavioral finance and financial management.

Education

• B.A., George Fox University
• M.S., University of New Orleans
• Ph.D., University of New Orleans

Academic interests

Kyle's research interests include commodity futures, asset pricing and financial institutions. His current work focuses on the effects of financialization of the commodity markets beginning in the mid-2000s.

Jolyn Dahlvig is an assistant professor of higher education leadership within Maryville University's higher education leadership doctoral program. Jolyn teaches graduate educational research courses and organizational leadership. As a remote faculty for Maryville, Jolyn appreciates the opportunity to teach in-person within Linfield's graduate business programs. Jolyn is an active member of the International Leadership Association and enjoys studying the intersection of leadership, followership, and context. 

Education

• B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, social work
• M.A.I.S., Oregon State University, higher education, adult learning, gender studies
• Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University, higher education leadership and organizational leadership

Design, Innovation & Sustainability

• Author of “The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil” (Routledge 2014), and was Amazon’s first director of social responsibility from 2015-17.
• Served as advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for business and human rights from 2006-2011, and previously worked for energy giant BP in Indonesia, China, and the U.K.
• She was a contributing writer for The Atlantic and delivered a TED talk in 2014, as well as a TEDxMcMinnville talk at Linfield in January 2020.
• She serves on McMinnville’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Committee and is assistant coach for the state champion Valley Panthers girls’ high school rugby club.
• B.A. magna cum laude, Amherst College; M.B.A., Yale University
• Visit Christine Bader’s website: https://www.christinebader.com

Sport Leadership

• Kara Adams is the Director of Guest Experience for Rip City Management, overseeing the guest experience for both venues on the Rose Quarter Property - Moda Center
• Prior to relocating to Oregon she served as the Sr. Manager of Guest Experience for the Washington Nationals
• She has served as the Marketing and Development Program Manager of the DC Trust for the Youth Sports arm
• Kara has a wide variety of experience from non-profit to profession sports, including internships with six different sports organizations
• MBA & Master's in Sport Business Management (University of Central Florida); BS, Sport Management (Howard University)

Sport Sales & Marketing

• Murray Cohn is the President of MC Sports Sales Training & Consulting and has over 120 Team clients including many: NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, MILB, ECHL, AHL and MLS Teams as well as many Universities and Entertainment partners.
• Prior to starting his own company, Murray was the NBA Vice President Team Ticket Sales as part of the NBA Team Marketing and Business Operations Group (TMBO)
• He has also previously served as the Director of Ticket Sales for the Dallas-Minnesota North Stars in the NHL and the Seattle Mariners in the MLB
• BS, Business Administration - Sport Management (Robert Morris College)
• Among the first three inducted into the Robert Morris University Sport Management Hall of Fame

Sports Analytics 

• Jay Riola is the Executive Vice President of Strategy & Innovation with the Orlando Magic. Riola oversees the Magic’s business strategy and innovation efforts including data engineering, strategy and analytics, mobile strategy, CRM, digital marketing and marketing technology, as well as other strategic initiatives and special projects.
• Riola started with the Magic as an intern in 2006 and worked as part of the Magic’s internal team overseeing the design and construction of the Amway Center. He has worked in several roles to grow the Magic’s data and analytics program from a small, startup effort into a department that is regarded by sports industry professionals as a best-in-class team. In May of 2022, Riola was selected to the SportsBusiness Journal’s Forty Under 40, a recognition that spotlights the nation’s top young sports executives under the age of 40.
• In addition to his role with the Magic, Riola is an adjunct instructor, where he teaches sport business analytics courses. He is active in the broader sports business industry serving on several boards and advisory committees, including currently serving as chair for UCF’s DeVos Sports Business Management Program’s Advisory Board, Baylor University’s Center for Sports Strategy and Sales (S3), KORE Software’s Customer Advisory Board, and the NBA’s Team Innovation Advisory Council (TIAC). Riola also serves on the board of Sports2Change, a nonprofit organization he founded that encourages volunteerism among youth student-athletes in Central Florida.
• Riola currently resides in Orlando’s College Park neighborhood with his wife, Julia. They have a daughter, Madeline, and a son, Mason.

Bill Sweat and his wife Donna Morris are founding co-owners of Winderlea Vineyard and Winery in Dundee, Oregon. Winderlea is a boutique producer of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Sparkling Wine.

Before founding Winderlea, Bill was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Fidelity Investments retail phone center in Merrimack, New Hampshire.  Prior to his time in Merrimack, Bill spent two and a half years in Tokyo with Fidelity Investments Japan as Vice President – Regional Operations Manager.

Bill is a founding Board Member of the Willamette Valley Wine Foundation. He is a past chairperson of the Oregon Wine Board, a statewide organization focused on Marketing, Research and Education, and a past president of the Oregon Winegrowers Association, a statewide industry advocacy group. Bill is a Trustee Emeritus of his alma mater, Bates College.

Education

• B.A., Bates College, History
• M.B.A., Boston College Carroll School of Management, Organizational Development and Finance

Academic Interests

Strategic Planning, Systems Thinking, and Organizational Development